it was Not usual that a painter caravaggista is interested in both the drawing, and much less than what obtains from the entity itself from the blood oranges or inks by José de Ribera. Now, to coincide with the publication of the first catalogue raisonné with the drawings of “Españoleto”, madrid’s Prado Museum dedicated to this facet the first monographic exhibition in almost 25 years.
“Before Goya, Ribera is the great cartoonist Spanish,” said today the director of the art gallery, Miguel Zugaza. And proof of this are the around 160 known drawings that came out of his hand, that give account not only of his technical skill, but also of the enormous variety of his subject matter. Of them, 52 will be seen from tomorrow and until the 19th of February at the Museum of the Prado, from where they then will travel to the Meadows Museum in Dallas.
The presentation of Ribera. Teacher of drawing” was, in addition, a reunion very special: that of the art gallery and its former director of conservation, Gabriele Finaldi, who left Madrid to get to the front of the National Gallery of London. The expert in baroque art is the director and co-author of the catalogue, in addition to curator of the exhibition. And with it, closes a cycle: started to work on the drawing of the Shore more than 25 years ago, with his doctoral thesis.
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