From the flames of Notre-Dame to one of the main exhibition halls of the Prado museum.
It is the unexpected path of 'The triumph of Job', an important painting by Guido Reni (1575-1642) which, after having risked a lot for the 2019 stake in the Parisian cathedral, is now part of a new large temporary exhibition on the artist Bolognese opening in Madrid.
From tomorrow until 9 July, visitors will be able to contemplate a total of 73 works attributed to the classicist painter, several of which are on loan from Italian museums.
"It is a magnificent and unrepeatable exhibition," commented Miguel Falomir, director of the Prado.
According to David García Cueto, curator of the exhibition, 'The Triumph of Job' is precisely one of his most seductive attractions.
"We can say that it is the perfect synthesis of the
But the particularly noteworthy works by Reni among those brought together for this long-awaited exhibition project - which also reserves space for some sculptures of his time - are in reality much more: there is, for example, 'the Immaculate Conception' loaned by Metropolitan in New York, a work considered "essential" by García Cueto;
or the 'Massacre of the Innocents', a famous painting kept in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna and considered an artistic symbol of the city of Bologna.
The fact that several of the exhibited works come from local museums is one of the aspects highlighted by the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, who went to Madrid to attend the official inauguration of the exhibition.
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