British Museum opens Renaissance to Goya Prints and drawings from Spain, an exhibition on view 20 September 2012 – 6 January 2013.
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Figures Dancing in a circle from Los Disparates, 1816-23. Print, 245 x 355 mm. © Trustees of the British Museum
his free exhibition brings together for the first time prints and drawings by mainly Spanish and important European artists working in Spain from the mid-16th to the first decades of the 19th century, many of which have never before been on display.
Beginning with works by 16th-century artists working in and around Madrid, including those who arrived mainly from Italy, the selection progresses chronologically to include important works from Spain’s ‘Golden Age’ (the 17th century) by artists Diego Velázquez, Vicente Carducho and Alonso Cano in Madrid, Bartolomé Murillo and Francisco de Zubarán in Seville, and José de Ribera in Spanish Naples. – www.britishmuseum.org