Exhibitions in Madrid 2020. What to see in Madrid

Exhibitions in Madrid. Winter-spring 2020.
Visiting exhibitions with art historian
A few years ago, a friend of mine asked me to explain to his two teenage sons why they had to go to museums. I tried my best to convince the younger generation to visit museums. 500 years ago, a very clever man explained to us what art is for. The intelligent man was called Albrecht Dürer, and his paintings, by the way, we saw in the Prado Museum.
" And the arts serve him to enable him to know good and evil.
Albert Durer
Brugeli. Wonders of Flemish painting.

Today I suggest you go to the Bruegel exhibition. Yeah, yeah, Bruegel. Although with the name of Bruegel, we mainly associate Peter the Elder or Muzhitsky.

Peter Bruegel the Elder will die at 44 of an unknown illness when his two sons are too young to adopt his artistic experience. Bruegel never learns that he became the ancestor of an entire artistic dynasty. We will talk about the dynasty of the glorious Bruegel family during our visit to this exhibition. Also at this exhibition we will get acquainted with the countrymen of Bruegel, who often "quoted" in their paintings the stories of the famous artist. Such a vivid example is the painting “Tower of Babel”:

Peter Bruegel the Elder "Muzhitsky is one of the most beloved and recognizable foreign artists in Russia." Why? I tried the movie. Tarkovsky, German, Alov with Naumov, Klimov. Personally, I first became interested in Bruegel in 1972 thanks to Andrei Tarkovsky’s painting Solaris. “Hunters in the snow”, shown in the film Tarkovsky, create a number of images and meanings. No, this painting (“Snow Hunters”) is not on display in Madrid. Basically, this exhibition is dedicated to the Bruegel dynasty, his closest and not very close relatives.

At the exhibition in Madrid, we will see one of the most recognizable paintings by Peter Bruegel the Elder – “Wedding Dance”.

We will have the opportunity to see this picture in its original form. The fact is that some too revealing details of the men’s suit for a long time were smeared with especially fierce supporters of morality. These revealing details, sewn onto trousers first to hide and then highlight the lower areas of the male body, were once censored in Peter Bruegel the Elder’s Wedding Dance (1566). In 1941, some details of the painting were restored.
At the very beginning of the exhibition we will see an amazing painting by Bosch “Seven Deadly Sins”.

I have great doubts about the attribution of this picture, I will share my doubts during the visit to the exhibition.
The exhibition "Breigeli: Miracles of Flemish Painting" will be available until April 12 at the Palace of Gaviria. The ticket price is 13 euros.