The Triumph of Venus. The Image of Woman in 18th Century Venetian Painting

This exhibition, sponsored by Barclays Bank, gather a selection of eighty works from various museums and collections, having as a thread the subject of qualities, metaphors and figures associated with women and feminity in the Venetian taste and pictorial imagination of the 18th Century. The itinerary of the exhibition, the commissioner of which was Tomàs Llorens, has been conceived as an analysis of the evolution in taste and pictorial language from the late Baroque period to Neoclassicism. One of the gratests attractions of this exhibition is the presentation in Spain of the masterpiece by Antonio Canova, The Three Graces.