The Museo Nacional del Prado is presenting Annibale Carracci. The frescoes from the Herrera Chapel

This exhibition, which is benefiting from the sponsorship of the Fundación Amigos del #museodelprado and the collaboration of the City Council of #madrid for its showing at the Prado, reunites until June 12,  a group of exceptionally important wall paintings (last seen together in 1833) which can be considered the great unknown work in Annibale Carracci’s oeuvre: the surviving frescoes from the chapel of Juan Enríquez de Herrera’s family in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome.

The recent restoration of the seven frescoes housed in the Prado and the collaboration of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Gallerie Nazionali di #arte Antica Palazzo Barberini in Rome have allowed these works to be studied, researched and reassessed.

The special installation for their display in the exhibition allows visitors to appreciate the original location of the works at different heights in the chapel and what the decorative scheme as a whole would have looked like.

Curated at the Prado by #andresubeda, Associate Director of Curatorship at the #museo Nacional del Prado, the exhibition will open to the public on March 8 and will travel to the MNAC in July, then finally to the Palazzo Barberini in November.

In the early years of the 17^th century #annibalecarracci (Bologna, 1560 - Rome, 1609) accepted the commission from Juan Enríquez de Herrera to paint frescoes in his family chapel in San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome. Carracci devised the entire scheme and painted some of the frescoes prior to 1605 when he became seriously ill, which obliged him to cease working on the project and entrust the execution of the paintings to Francesco Albani.

Further information in the press release to download