Placido Arango donated 25 works to Del Prado – The Universal

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 Madrid. -The More than 2 million and half people from around the world each year visit the Museo del Prado, from July 7 can admire the 25 artworks (21 paintings and four lithographs) the entrepreneur and collector Placido Arango (1931, Tampico), has donated to the Museo del Prado.
 

 

 They are masterpieces of its collection of paintings by Spanish and European artists working in Spain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century; They include Francisco Zurbaran, Francisco de Goya and Juan de Valdes Leal. And yesterday, at a plenary meeting of the Board of Prado your grant proposal was accepted with the right to life estate.
 

 

 “This donation is a real and emotional knock the heart of the collection of Spanish painting Prado” said Miguel Zugaza happy, museum director, who stressed that the donated works, which are in perfect condition and They were chosen by the museum itself, “cover gaps, such as Pedro de Campaña or reinforce artists already in the museum, like Zurbaran and Goya”.
 

 

 Miguel Falomir, deputy director of the museum, also referred to the paintings by Zurbaran and said that with the paintings Immaculate Conception , Immaculate girl and Hamletian San Francisco Prayer , allow the Prado settle its debt to the frontier painter. “Of all the masters of the Spanish Golden Age, it is the worst represented, but with this donation deficiency is alleviated”.
 

 

  Art Lover . This is not the first time that Arango, son of Asturian emigrants who left for Mexico but living in Spain since 1965, donated paintings to the museum. In 1991 and donated to the museum 80 engravings of the first edition of Goya’s Caprichos and economically helped the recovery of The Marchioness of Santa Cruz , Goya, and the restoration of Las Meninas , by Velázquez. And this time he has donated four lithographs by Goya of his Bulls of Bordeaux series, “culminating the magnificent collection of the printed works of the Aragonese master in the Prado” according Falomir.
 

 

 Other works donated are The dream of San José , by Francisco de Herrera “El Mozo”, one of the favorite works of Arango; two paintings of Flemish settled in Spain Pedro de Campaña (Pieter van Kempeneer), Calvary Road and Descent , which made their years in Seville; Felipe Pablo San Leocadio, Adoration of the Shepherds , which becomes the first work of the Valencian painter who has the museum; a work of still-life painter Alejandro Loarte; one Immaculate Conception and San Juan Bautista , Valdes Leal; and works of Eugenio Cajés, Luis Tristan, Mateo Cerezo, Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra and Corrado Giaquinto, among others.
 

 

 Donating Arango, who is patron of Honor del Prado, has no counterpart. Something that was much appreciated by the Chairman of the Board, José Pedro Pérez Lorca, who noted that the Mexican businessman has donated works (in a country where there is no Law of Patronage, as in some European countries) “with elegance, as not He wants any public act of thanksgiving in which he is present. ”
 

 

 Economic valuation of the works carried out in Spain by Spanish or foreign authors has not been carried out. The pieces were acquired abroad, so now return to this country.