The Prado museum in Madrid, Spain, dedicates an exhibition to Raphael Sanzio and his workshop. This exhibition is very particular, because is devoted to the last years of the master’s life, when he lived and worked in Rome, as one of the most influential artists of his time. One cannot speak of Raphael Sanzio in a few words. This is only a simple invitation to know him following different paths characterized by spaces and emotions. The exhibit includes more than seventy signed works, paintings and drawings, all of them created in his last seven years of life; from the start…

Soon after graduating I shared a theatrical house with several colleagues in the central streetof La Bola in Madrid. It was a lovely house in a wonderful location. My roommates hada poster of two girls hanging to the light of the window. At first sight, I thought the poster was oftwo African girls. I probably imagine that because the colors were green and brown. I had never seen anythingfrom that painter before, but I really liked the picture and I became interested in it and also in the Brückemovement.In brief, theGerman Expressionists seemed fascinating to me. Just a couple of…

The Crossed Lives of the Text and Its Readers  Don´t miss the exhibition at the National Library about the Hebrew manuscripts produced in the Iberian Peninsula during medieval times , they are  so poignand! After being read by Jews and converts, and later collected by various owners and institutions, many of these manuscripts are travelling for the first time from their place of origin to show a piece of Spanish cultural history in this exhibition. During the middle ages, the Hebrew Bible was the backbone of Jewish cultural and religious life in the Iberian Peninsula. This exhibition explores the history…

The exhibition traces the evolution of Chagall life Marc Chagall developed a highly expressive and colourist pictorial style that was closely linked to his own life and to the religious and popular traditions of the Russian Jewish community. Chagall combined elements from Cubism, Fauvism and Robert Delaunay’s Orphism to create a personal style that is difficult to categorise. Born in the small Russian town of Vitebsk, Chagall’s long life (he lived to be almost 100) was marked by the major historic events of the first half of the 20th century. A tireless creator and one always open to new experiences…

In my visits to the PradoMuseum with children I like to encourage them to look at those gentlemen carrying around their neck a ”ram” figurine, since they will probably were Kings of Spain. This a perfect point to start the story about the mythological origins of this country, Spain. The name of the order refers to the Greek myth of the Golden Fleece, a gift from the gods, which brought a source of prosperity to whoever possessed it. It evokes the tale of chivalry, heroism, perils and teamwork led Jason, Hercules, and the Argonauts in order to bring the precious…