The Prado Museum asks for help to find in Italy a Santa Cecilia de Mengs – The Observatorial

It is the first time in its history that the Prado Museum does something similar. It sends a message in a bottle, taking advantage of social networks and the new media, to find a painting that has been searching tirelessly for a year and a half. And it does not appear. The painting, dated in 1760, is a beautiful Santa Cecilia (patron of musicians) with cello, work of Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779). The Madrid Pinacoteca prepares for next Novemb…

Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos, co-commissioner of the exhibition Anton Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the 18th century, who will be inaugurated next November at the Prado Museum, has launched a message 'of help' through social networks to locate this work of the author, whose track is lost in 2001, in Italy: Santa Cecilia.A call unpublished and 'irregular'"It is a call- has said in a direct broadcast by the Prado Museum in room 22- with a po…

The Prado Museum asks for help to find in Italy a Santa Cecilia de Mengs – The Observatorial

He Prado Museum has asked for help, through its diffusion channels, to find in Italy a ‘Holy Cecilia’ by the artist Raphael Mengs. Andrés Úbeda, Co-Commissioner of the Exhibition ‘Anton Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the 18th century ‘ -That will be inaugurated next November in the Pinacoteca-, has released a message to locate […]

The painting "Saint Cecilia" by the artist Anton Raphael Mengs disappeared in 2001 and now the Prado Museum is asking for collaboration to recover it and include it in an exhibition about the author.

The Prado Museum in Madrid asks for help in finding the painting 'Santa Cecilia', whose trail is lost in 2001 in Rome and which the Spanish pinacoteca would like to include in its exhibition next November "Anton Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the eighteenth century". Through a video published on the museum's social networks, the accompanying director of conservation and research of the Prado since 2017, Andrés Úbeda, asks for help in loc…

The Prado Museum has asked for help, through its channels of dissemination, to find in Italy a ‘Santa Cecilia’ by the artist Raphael Mengs. Andrés Úbeda, co-commissioner of the exhibition ‘Anton Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the eighteenth century’ – which will be inaugurated next November at the Pinacoteca-, has launched a message to locate this work of the author that would be of ‘great importance’ for the exhibition discourse. Specif…