Catch a glimpse of the Prado’s exhibition Rubens, The Triumph of the Eucharist through a series of short videos. The exhibition travels to the Getty on October 14
The exquisite talents of Peter Paul Rubens are currently on view at The Prado Museum in an exhibition called Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist, closing this Sunday. For those of us unable to visit in person, the Prado has posted lovely videos with English subtitles about the exhibition, which gives us online viewers a peek.
Rubens used his series of Triumph of the Eucharist paintings to design the energetic compositions of enormous tapestries for the Convent of the Barefoot Royals (Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales), a favorite of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, ruler of the Southern Netherlands and a deeply religious member of the Spanish royal family.
Inside the Prado exhibition with tapestries of the Triumph of the Eucharist created from Rubens’s oil sketches. These will be on view at the Getty Museum in fall 2014. Photo © Museo Del Prado
The Prado has been able to conserve this magnificent group of six panel paintings from the early 1620s—one of the most important commissions of Rubens’s lifetime—thanks in part to a two-year grant from the Getty Foundation. The grant is part of an international effort by the Getty called the Panel Paintings Initiative to train conservation specialists to ensure that important works of art on panels survive for future generations. (As gorgeous as the paintings themselves are, the reverse of Rubens’s masterpieces also tell an interesting story about their history. Read more about that in a previous Iris post here.)
The best news is that these beautiful panel paintings, along with some of the monumental tapestries, will be traveling to the Getty Museum in October and will be on view Oct. 14 through Jan. 11 in Spectacular Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist, so visitors in Los Angeles will also be able to see these beautiful works in person. Consider this video a small taste of what’s to come!
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