To mark its 40th anniversary, the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Ponce de Puerto Rico present, the exhibition Masterpieces of European Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
Curated by Cheryl Hartup and Richard Aste, the show is conformed by 60 paintings that come from the archives of the Puerto Rican museum; the paintings offer the viewers a trip through the paintings made by the great masters of European art from the 14th to the 20th centuries.
From the Spanish school there are works of art made by Claudio Coello, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Luis de Morales El divino, José de Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Joaquín Sorolla.
While the Flemish school presents paintings made by Joos Van Cleve, Pieter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck, to mention just a few examples.
French art includes the artistic labor from Gustave Doré, Philippe de Champagne, Charles le Brun and Gustave Moreau.
From Holland selected artists are Salomon de Bray, David Teniers The younger and Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem.
The British school is represented by works from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Benjamín West, James Ward and John Everett Millais, among others.
Italian painting offers works made by Sisto Badalocchio, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Luca di Tommè, Francesco Furini and Bernardo Strozzi.
As an example of other European schools the show includes paintings by Lucas Cranach The elder, Johan Georg Platzer, Angélica Kauffmann and Lovis Corinth.
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