Lecture series Spain and Portugal: paths of exchange
- For:
- General public
- Time:
17.00 (duration: 50 min)
- Place:
- New location: The Upper Balcony (5 floor). Entrance through the central hall
- Price:
Free activity. Prior booking request
Booking opens on 3 March (online and on tel. +34 917 911 370, from 10.00 to 20.00).
The exhibition currently on display at the museum, Guardi and Venice in the Museo Gulbenkian Collection, presents the group of works by Francesco Guardi housed in the Museo Calouste Gulbenkian for the first time in its entirety in Madrid thanks to an agreement between the two institutions. In conjunction with the exhibition the museum is organising a lecture series which focuses on cultural collaboration between Spain and Portugal, two countries with multiple connections. The talks will be devoted to the movement of objects between the two countries from the 16th century onwards; the figure of Francesco Guardi and his works in the Lisbon museum; and the collecting activities of Calouste Gulbenkian.
From María de Aragón to Isabel de Braganza, from India to the Prado: the circulation of objects and knowledge between Spain and Portugal from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Fernando Bouza
Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Venice through the eyes of Francesco Guardi
Mar Borobia
Chief Curator Old Master Painting at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Thrusday, 24 April
Gulbenkian, a 'great admirer' of Guardi*
Vera Mariz
Research Curator at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
*This conference will be simultaneously translated into Spanish.
Curated by the Embassy of Portugal in Spain in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, as part of the joint cultural program Portugal-Spain: 50 Years of Culture and Democracy.
With the support of:
