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Prado Unveils Permanent Reconstruction of Rome’s Capilla Herrera

The museum recreates the chapel’s architecture to resolve decades of display challenges caused by the frescoes’ site-specific formats.

Recreación de la Capilla Herreraque ha relizado el Museo del Prado.
Ahora, con la estructura construida a modo de cúpula con pechinas, las obras de Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) se pueden contemplar tal y como fueron pensadas por el maestro del barroco italiano.
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Overview

  • Seven frescoes from the Carracci-led cycle are mounted in Sala 4 of the Villanueva building in the spatial arrangement for which they were conceived.
  • A full-size photograph of the God the Father fresco held at Barcelona’s MNAC and a print of Saint John Evangelist complete the original program.
  • The cycle was executed between 1602 and 1605 under Annibale Carracci and finished by Francesco Albani and collaborators.
  • The works were detached in 1833 when the Roman church faced ruin, with nine panels sent to Barcelona, seven to the Prado, and three now missing.
  • Fifteen related Bolognese paintings are installed beneath the frescoes to present a broader early Baroque context in a permanent display.