Arts & Culture

Nudes From The Prado At The Clark

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke

Published September 12, 2016 at 11:30 AM EDT

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Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593–1678), Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, 1636–38. Oil on canvas, 71 1/4 x 113 3/8 in.";s:

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Guido Reni (Italian, 1575–1642), Saint Sebastian, c. 1617–19. Oil on canvas, 66 7/8 x 52 3/8 in.";s:

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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, 1591–1666), Susannah and the Elders, c. 1617. Oil on canvas, 69 1/4 x 81 7/8 in.";

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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), Fortuna, 1636–38. Oil on canvas, 71 3/4 x 39 5/8 in.";s:

Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado is the current exhibition at The Clark in Williamstown, MA.

The exhibition features twenty-eight Old Master paintings from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid by Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, and many others. The exhibition explores the role of the nude in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the collecting and display practices of the Spanish royalty.

We are taken on a tour of the exhibition by The Clark's Kathleen Morris, Sylvia and Leonard Marx Director of Collections and Exhibitions and curator of decorative arts; and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, interim curator of paintings and sculpture.