Francis Bacon at the Prado in Madrid 3 February – 19 April 2009

Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X. Oil on canvas, 153 x 118 cm.

Curator: Manuela Mena. Chief curator of 18th Painting and Goya at the Museo del Prado. Rooms A and B. Jerónimos Building

Museo del Prado will be hosting next February the major retrospective exhibition on Francis Bacon organised by Tate Britain in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the Prado, to commemorate the centenary of the artit’s birth in October 1909. The exhibition comprises many of the Irish-born artist’s fundamental pieces, whose impressive style has turned him into one of the most singular and influential painters of the last century and will be shown in three cities which had a significant importance for him: London, where the show is currently on view, Madrid and New York. In Madrid, the exhibition has a special meaning since Bacon not only reflected in his works his knowledge concerning Spanish masters, such as Velázquez and Goya, but because he also died in Madrid on April 28 1992. Not to mention that he frequently visited the Prado during the last years of his life.

Het Prado Museum in Madrid heeft in samenwerking met Google Earth een aantal schilderijen gefotografeerd.

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Prado Museum in Google Earth

De site van het Prado werkt wel maar er zitten nog wat problemen in.
U kunt ook Google Earth downloaden via deze link.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.

De meesterwerken uit het Museo del Prado in extreem hoge resolutie.
Zoom in en blader door de afbeeldingen met uw muis of toetsenbord; ervaar de meesterwerken in extreem hoge resolutie.
Gebruik Google Earth om alle meesterwerken over de volledige grootte van uw scherm te zien, alsmede het museum zelf in 3D

Superscherpe foto’s van werken van Francisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens en Diego Velázquez, maar ook van onder anderen Rembrandt en Jeroen Bosch.
Het maken van de foto’s heeft maanden geduurd. Er werden 8200 opnames gemaakt die door een speciale techniek 1400 keer scherper zijn dan die van een camera van tien megapixel.