Exhibition: Shaking hands. Sculpture and colour in the Golden Age

The Museo Nacional del Prado is hosting an exhibition that illustrates the tireless search for realism in Spanish art during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Drawing on the Greco-Latin tradition, the exhibition displays a hundred works that highlight the different dimensions of scenic art as an instrument of persuasion. Paintings, prints and sculptures that interact with colour to provide greater verisimilitude and that show a third dimension of art as a formula to make divinity more credible.

Moreover, the picture gallery will be displaying five recently acquired polychrome wooden sculptures to the public for the first time. These are The Good Thief and The Bad Thief, by Alonso Berruguete; the work Saint John the Baptist, by Juan de Mesa; and Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, which belong to the Christian iconography of the Late Middle Ages in Castile.