Turner in Madrid

New York, N.Y., June, 2010.  The Prado Museum is showing Turner and the Masters from now through September 19, this is the first major exhibition in Spain devoted to JWM Turner (1775-1851), one of the great masters of art but an artist barely represented in Spain. The project is also noteworthy as it is the first to juxtapose Turner’s work with that of the earlier masters who influenced him and the contemporary painters with whom he competed. All together the exhibition includes forty paintings by Turner, as well as numerous masterpieces by artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau, Claude Lorraine, Canaletto and Constable, among others.

The differences between the version shown at the Museo del Prado in Madrid and those already seen at The Tate and Le Louvre, are the presence of a number of paintings, including Shipwreck of a Cargo Boat, Snowstorm: Hannibal and his Army crossing the Alps, Peace: Burial at Sea, Shade and Darkness: Evening of the Deluge, and Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory): the morning after the Deluge, all absolute masterpieces by Turner. The works by other painters include the major canvases by Claude Lorraine and Rubens, Port Scene with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula, and Landscape with a Cart at Dusk .

Madrid, one of the liveliest cities in the world, is an art lover’s paradise with grand museums such as the Prado, the Reina Sofía and the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Royal Palace, as well as delightful smaller ones including the Lázaro Galdiano, Casa Museo Sorolla, Museo Cerralbo, Museo Romántico, etc. And the surroundings of Madrid are dotted with more art: Toledo, Segovia, Avila, Aranjuez and Alcalá de Henares to name a few.

 For further information visit www.museodelprado.es and www.turismomadrid.es