The Paris Trial Lands at CaixaForum Barcelona: This Is How a Rubens Is Installed

Attacked with reflective vests and gloves, the operators prepare to open the wooden box. The container, two meters high and almost four wide, waits gently reclining in a still empty room of CaixaForum Barcelona. The silence in the room could be cut with scalpel. Not every day the unpacking of a masterpiece of painting is present: It is the trial of Paris (1638-1639), by Pedro Pablo Rubens. The cloth, which will be the undisputed star of the exhi…