Exhibition «Joining hands. Sculpture and colour in the Siglo de Oro»

The Museo del Prado hosts a new exhibition, El Siglo de Oro, which presents almost a hundred statues, engravings and paintings that highlight the importance of colour. This exhibition invites us to reflect on the success of Baroque polychrome sculpture and its complementarity with painting. In particular, around a hundred sculptures by Gaspar Becker, Alonso Berruguete, Gregorio Fernández, Damián Forment, Juan de Juni and others will be exhibited, along with paintings and engravings that highlight the importance of colour since antiquity. All visitors have the unique opportunity to view five works the museum has acquired recently: «Buen ladrón y Mal ladrón», by Alonso Berruguete; «San Juan Bautista», by Juan de Mesa; and «José de Arimatea y Nicodemo», a pair belonging to a late medieval Castilian «Descendimiento».