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Fifth and final lecture in the series on the exhibition The Collection of the Museu de Belles Arts, Valencia: Between Bosch and Sorolla at the FMCMP Madrid Centre.

Spanish Baroque painting is an artistic manifestation characterised by immense creative activity and unprecedented freedom of expression. 

The different schools, among which the one in Valencia had a unique personality, experienced a series of transformations prompted by a profound renewal of the vision of reality and humanity. This did not only have formal implications but gave rise to a new visual language. The new Baroque language was centred on certain common themes that each artist and school interpreted in their own way. The seventeenth century was the period that witnessed the gestation and manifestation of this new language.

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Ignacio Cano Rivero has been a curator at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville, since 1996 and was the director of the museum between 2003 and 2007. He is currently head of the Outreach Department, which is responsible for organising exhibitions. Ignacio has a PhD in Art History from the Universidad de Sevilla and completed his training at institutions like the Paul Getty Research Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has curated major exhibitions by Baroque artists associated with the Sevillian school, such as those dedicated to Roelas, Zurbarán, Murillo and Valdés Leal. His research interests are Baroque painting and art collecting, and his publications focus on these two aspects. He has been a member of different research groups and is a consultant for national and international magazines.

All lectures take place at 6.30 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Advance ticket bookings: reservas@fmcmp.com Tickets (one per person) can also be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. For any incident, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com