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Sculpting Color: Masterpieces of 17th-Century Spanish Sculpture at the Louvre

From October 7, 2026, to January 25, 2027, in the Napoleon Hall of the Louvre Museum, the exhibition *Sculpting Color: Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid will run alongside the exhibition dedicated to Francisco de Zurbar&...
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At the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the restoration of Rubens’s *Venus and Cupid* reveals the painting’s original colors and techniques

From June 16 to September 13, 2026, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum is dedicating a special exhibition to Peter Paul Rubens’ *Venus and Cupid*, on view in Gallery 19 of the permanent collection. The exhibition details the complex restoration p...
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Spain: A painting by Diego Velázquez has been discovered—it is a portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares

A previously unknown work by Diego Velázquez (Seville, 1599 – Madrid, 1660), one of the most important artists of the Spanish 17th century, has been discovered in Spain . The discovery was announced by art historian Salvador Salort-Pons...
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Spain: An ancient bronze votive chariot, the only one of its kind on the Iberian Peninsula, has been discovered

At the Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guareña, in the province of Badajoz, Spain, a bronze votive chariot of great decorative and iconographic complexity has been discovered; it is considered to be a spe...
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Barcelona declares war on tourist rentals: stop B&Bs to bring residents back downtown

"Tourism must be at the service of the city, not the city at the service of tourism," which is why "tourist [house] rentals will disappear by 2028." This sentence alone would be enough to restore the political sense of the position of Barcelona's may...
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Valencia, 2000 years of architecture: gothic, modernism and avant-garde

To walk around Valencia is to traverse more than two thousand years of urban history, legible in the different architectural styles that coexist in the city. From evidence of Roman times to contemporary architecture, Valencia's urban fabric looks lik...
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Sorolla and Valencia: an itinerary in the light of the master who captured the soul of the Mediterranean

The painting of Joaquín Sorolla, a great Spanish artist who reinterpreted in his homeland the suggestions of the Impressionists, is made up of a few recurring and recognizable elements: white dresses vibrating in the sea breeze, tanned childre...
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At the Prado in Madrid, an exhibition investigates Italian influence in late medieval Spanish art

ThePrado Museum in Madrid will host, from May 26 to September 20, 2026, the exhibition Alla maniera italiana. Spain and the Mediterranean Gothic, 1320-1420, curated by Joan Molina Figueras, head of the collection of European painting up to 1500. Und...
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