Mexican businessman donated 25 works to the Prado – The Universal

 The employer Placido Arango Arias donated 25 works of ancient art from his collection to the Prado , among which pieces of Francisco de Zurbaran Pablo de San Leocadio, Francisco de Goya , among other great masters.
 

 

 The Royal Board of the Prado Museum Tuesday approved unanimously to accept the donation, with the right to life interest of these works to be exhibited gradually in the Madrid museum, and a first selection of ten will be presented on 7 July in that chamber.
 

 

 The Chairman of the Board, José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, and the director of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza, announced the gift , the second makes the Mexican-Spanish entrepreneur, after 80 engravings of Goya the “Caprichos” series in 1991 donated to the museum.
 

 

 The holder of Conservation and Research of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Falomir, said the reason why this grant is exceptional is because the works “cover gaps” on the Museum on some painters and reinforces the presence of others.
 

 

 He stressed that work is in good condition and most are foreigners or Spanish painters settled in Spain and correspond to a period from 1528-1825.
 

 

 Zugaza said that a selection of ten of the 25 works will be exhibited from 7 July in the different rooms of the museum, as the school, the period or the corresponding author.
 

 

 He clarified that the Arango Arias himself asked that no presentation ceremony is not performed with attendance at the museum, so it also will be a room dedicated to this donation, but 25 works will be exhibited gradually, and at the conclusion of the usufruct They will become part of the collection of the Prado.
 

 

 Arango Arias was president of the Patronato Museo del Prado in 2007-2012 and their management promoted the rescue and the specialized treatment of numerous paintings.
 

 

 The donation is part four of Goya lithographs, which the Museum complete printed work of this painter, as well as 21 paintings by artists such as Zurbarán, Luis de Morales, Pablo de San Leocadio, Eugenio Cajés, Luis Tristan, Pedro Campaign and Francisco Barrera.
 

 

 And works by Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Mateo Cerezo, Francisco de Herrera the Younger, Juan de Valdes Leal, Corrado Giaquinto and Alejandro Loarte.
 

 

 
 

 

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