Exhibition presents works that have undergone lengthy and complex restoration

For the first time, the Museo del Prado is presenting an exhibition (curated by Ana González Mozo, Senior Restorer in the Museum’s Restoration Department) devoted to Italian painting on stone with the aim of disseminating the result of the analyses undertaken on these works and focusing on little-studied issues to date. A carefully selected group of works from the Museum’s collection, together with others from Naples, reveal the new approach to artistic techniques that emerged in the early decades of the 16th century. These paintings also reflect aesthetic and philosophical concepts of the time: the reproduction of new pictorial effects involving the control of the fall of light on the painting’s surface; the perception of the natural world as codified in classical texts; the paragone with sculpture; and the desire to produce eternal creations.