Reflections on Painting, beyond the Prado

Alejandro Vergara’s work at the Prado Museum and his ideas on Contemporary Art share a humanistic conception of art, which seeks to understand its relevance to our lives. These ideas underlie the analysis he will share with us about a Poussin painting, the phenomenon of copies, and the persistence of aesthetic qualities throughout the centuries.

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Limited places are available and will be assigned by registration only.

Speaker

Alejandro Vergara is Head of the Flemish Painting and Northern Schools Collection at the Museo Nacional del Prado. He holds a degree in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, with a doctoral thesis on Rubens’s relationship with Spain. He has taught art history at the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University, New York, before joining the Museo del Prado as a curator in 1999. A specialist in the painting of Rubens and 17th-century Flemish painting, he has also researched 16th- and 17th-century Dutch painting. At the Museo del Prado he has curated several exhibitions, including the recent “El taller de Rubens” (2024).