Goya and Delacroix visit Barcelona
If you are visiting Barcelona this spring, Caixa Forum is a must, because in this season offers exhibitions of two of the great masters of painting.
“Goya: lights and shadows” shows a chronological journey through the Spanish painter’s work, organized as small visual stories that examine major issues addressed by the artist throughout his life.
The exhibition is presented in Barcelona as part of the collaboration agreement between the Obra Social “la Caixa” and the Prado Museum, and includes such prominent pieces as The Clothed Maja, The umbrella, Flying witches or Still learning (until 24 June).
In an adjoining room, is showed a exposion the great French painter Eugene Delacroix, one of the most prominent figures of Romanticism. It exhibited some of his most known works as Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi (Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux), one of the sketches of Death of Sardanapalus (Louvre, Paris) or Women of Algiers in Their room (Louvre, Paris), exceptionally loaned for the exhibition.
This is the most important exhibition organized in Spain around the figure of Delacroix. It has loans of such important institutions as the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago (until 24 May).
Admission is free.
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