Entre lo sagrado y lo profano. El Renacimiento en Prato

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, which primarily features the recovery of the classic spirit, the humanism, had a crucial importance in the locality of Prato, in Tuscany. Donatello and Filippo Lippi left their trace in the decoration of the cathedral, which would be turned into a place of pilgrimage for the new generations of artists. On the other hand, the existence of an important corporate life produced an extraordinary culture of wealth that rivaled with the neighbouring Florence.

With this exposition they present the support of Prato to the Renaissance art during the period of four centuries, since the creation of the great artists of the XIV Century, like Bernaldo Daddi, author of the altarpiece, the Sacred Ribbon (the ribbon that the Virgin presented to Saint Thomas and that is still conserved as a relic in Prato), up to the masterpieces of Filippo Lippi, of the XV Century, in that the spirit of the humanism manifests in its maximum grade of refinement.

The exhibition also gathers, amongst others, the contributions of the Mannerisms, like Gianni Maria Butteri, and of the Naturalists, like Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, the Batistello, that took up to the last consequences the technique of the chiaroscuro.

From the luminous epiphanies of the Trecento up to the expressive violence of Luca Signorelli and the Tenebrismo who announces the Baroque, the exhibition proposes a trip through the history of Italian art, from 59 pieces belonging to the fund of the Civic Museum of Prato, between which paintings are included on wood and cloth, frescos, reliefs in terracotta and maiolica, furniture and pieces of gold work.

With this exhibition, they also want to remember the link between Barcelona and Prato, two cities dedicated to the textile production that in the Middle Ages supported a narrow commercial relation.

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