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9/9/2026 9:00 AM
The circulation of art in the western Mediterranean and the role played by Italian Trecento models in shaping Spanish art of the Middle Ages have been the subject of growing academic interest in recent decades. Different findings have contributed to expanding our knowledge of the transnational exchanges of images, techniques, and artists in the late Gothic period, helping to reformulate the concep
11/18/2025 9:30 AM
Cátedra del Prado Colloquium 2025. The Shape of Time: Aspects of Temporality
Historically, time has been measured by multiple means: sliding sand, trickling water, tick-tocking clocks. As of the Middle Ages, these innovations meant that Time’s cyclical structures were slowly superseded by new, linear ones. By focusing on the creative potential of Time’s different modi, the colloquium seeks to draw attention to their heterogenous temporalities in art. And this, from diverse
11/7/2025 9:30 AM
Seminar of the Prado Museum Chair Forms of time
The XIV Cátedra del Prado course is comprised of four lectures, a colloquium and a seminar, to be held in four sessions, on Friday mornings, in November. The participants will undertake practical historiographic analysis on the theme that gives the Chair its title, Time, the Invisible Force: Imaginal Concepts in the Course of History. The seminar, a valuable academic endeavor, will be intensive an
11/6/2025 6:30 PM
Cátedra del Prado. Time – The Invisible Force Visual Concepts Through History
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt The 14th Academic Chair of the Museo del Prado focuses on the representation of time and its impact on visual culture. It will be delivered by historian of images Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt. The Chair is intended for the general public, as well as junior researchers and specialised audiences. The programm consists of three activities. The central event is a series of four LE
11/6/2025 6:30 PM
Lectures of the Cátedra del Prado. Time – The Invisible Force Visual Concepts Through History
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt Time is invisible. Yet it is always present. “Before” and “after,” and even space itself, would not exist without it, as then, everything would happen all at once. Only time gives us humans and our cultures a historical perspective. History arises out of life, art history out of creative image-making. Time itself consistently eludes our senses, though its effects are every
10/16/2025 7:00 PM
Conference José Pedro Pérez-Llorca 2025: Robin Lane Fox
The Natural World: Pagan and Christian… " ‘Nature’ is a concept devised by pagan Greeks in the sixth century BC. Pagan art, literature, philosophy and life responded in many ways to animals, flowers, landscapes and weather in what they regarded as the natural world. Christianity then transformed ways in which artists, poets, worshippers and thinkers looked on these items, introducing ideas of Par
6/24/2025 6:30 PM
With the aim of contributing to excellence in artistic creation, inspiring and promoting experimentation and the convergence of the creative languages of literature and the visual arts, the Museum temporarily becomes a host for living writing through Writing the Prado. International Writing Fellowship sponsored by the Loewe Foundation. Each year the Museo Nacional del Prado invites two internation
6/12/2025 10:00 AM
COPIA DE - COPIA DE - COPIA DE - COPIA DE - #TheSpinners
In order to make culture more accessible to those who have lost their liberty and create a transformational experience for individuals at risk of social exclusion, we have devised an initiative for helping the prison population to discover the Prado and its collections in a participatory, enjoyable way.This proposal consists of several sessions in which works related to textiles will be presented.
6/5/2025 10:00 AM
Publics of the First Public Museums (18th and 19th Centuries). Visual Sources
The history of museums in the founding period of these modern institutions has been the subject of prominent research in recent decades, to which numerous and competent publications in various languages have contributed. Not less important are the very recent academic contributions and initiatives of the Swiss National Foundation-supported research project Visibility Reclaimed. Experiencing Rome's
2/27/2025 7:00 PM
The Meet the Prado program is devoted to a closer acquaintance with current American art criticism. It offers the opportunity to hear the voices of particularly prestigious art critics active in the United States, who are invited to learn more about the Museo del Prado and to hold a public conversation on topics that affect their profession, current art culture, their communication, and the challe
2/25/2025 10:30 AM
COPIA DE - The Female Perspective II
History and art have been an important source for cinema and have been an inspiration for some of the most interesting and captivating film stories. The eventful lives of the protagonists of this edition of The Female Perspective, that include some of the most powerful and influential women of the seventeenth century, have been the subject of multiple cinematographic productions where history and
2/3/2025 10:00 AM
COPIA DE - COPIA DE - COPIA DE - COPIA DE - #TheSpinners
In order to make culture more accessible to those who have lost their liberty and create a transformational experience for individuals at risk of social exclusion, we have devised an initiative for helping the prison population to discover the Prado and its collections in a participatory, enjoyable way.This proposal consists of several sessions in which works related to textiles will be presented.
11/27/2024 12:00 PM
The founding period of modern museums has emerged as a vital field of research in recent decades, generating significant scholarly publications from an international perspective. In this context it is important to highlight the current work of the Swiss National Foundation-funded research project Visibility Reclaimed. Experiencing Rome's First Public Museums (1733-1870). An Analysis of Public Audi
11/18/2024 9:30 AM
Cátedra del Prado Colloquium. The Museum’s Times
In museums, different times converge: the visitors’ time, the personal time they bring with them; the time of the objects on display; and a third, often hidden time—the time when the museum’s collections were formed. The colloquium explores the theme of temporality in museums and the time that shapes them: from debates over the ownership of antiquities to the performativity of temporary exhibition
11/8/2024 9:30 AM
Seminar of the Prado Museum Chair Factivism. Working with Historical Sources
The 12th Prado Museum Chair program will include four lectures, a colloquium and a four session seminar. The seminar will be held every Friday morning in November. It will include practical exercises in historiographical analysis related to the topic that provides this Chair with its name: Returning Looted Heritage: 1815, the Dismantling of the Louvre and the Rebirth of Museums in Europe. In our m
11/7/2024 7:00 PM
Bénédicte SavoyBetween 1794 and 1811, successive French governments seized “works of art and science” from different states of Europe. This policy of appropriation, made legitimate by the belief that works of art, the natural by-product of freedom, should be returned to the land of liberty (i.e., France), gave rise to a major flow of cultural objects (paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, exquisite
11/7/2024 7:00 PM
Returning Looted Heritage: 1815, the Dismantling of the Louvre and the Rebirth of Museums in Europe
Bénédicte SavoyBetween 1794 and 1811, successive French governments seized “works of art and science” from different states of Europe. This policy of appropriation, made legitimate by the belief that works of art, the natural by-product of freedom, should be returned to the land of liberty (i.e., France), gave rise to a major flow of cultural objects (paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, exquisite
10/24/2024 7:00 PM
José Pedro Pérez-Llorca Conference 2024: José Sanchis Sinisterra
Hipnos desaforado y La poética del sueño" Los sueños están en la raíz de muchos avatares de la creatividad humana, y no solo en el campo de la literatura y las demás artes, sino también en la filosofía y en las ciencias. Bastaría evocar los nombres de F. Nietzsche, I. Stravinsky y J. Cortázar para que se aceptara sin reservas el estrecho y complejo vínculo que se da entre los sueños y la creación.
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