Lisbon's
National Museum of Ancient Art is to exhibit around 60 Spanish works from the
Prado Museum from November 29th.
The
exhibition “Painting from the North in the Prado Museum” features works by
Rubens, Breughel and Lorrain and is thanks to an agreement between the two
institutions. It will be the first time that such a large number of Prado
Museum works will be put on show in Portugal.
The
agreement forms part of a series of initiatives between the two museums, apart
from this exhibition, such as the loan of the triptych "Temptation of
Saint Anthony", by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, currently on
display at the National Museum of Ancient Art. As an offset, the Portuguese
museum will receive a self-portrait of Albrecht Dürer, one of the ex-libris in
the Prado Museum collection which is rarely lent out.
In 2016,
the Prado Museum will put on a large exhibition for the 500th anniversary
commemoration of the death of Bosch, bringing together a large part of his
works.
In the
National Museum of Ancient Art, founded in 1884, is to be found the most
relevant collection of non-modern art in the country, including a number of
important artworks classified as National Treasures such as the St. Vincent
Panels, the Monstrance of Belém or the Namban Screens.
