Two Seventeenth-Century Garden Views from the Royal Palace of Aranjuez

Around 1660 the artist Benito Manuel Agüero completed thirty-three paintings for the «Salón» of Philip IV’s palace at Aranjuez. This pictorial program included seven large over window (sobreventana) paintings, of which five have long formed part of the collections in the Museo del Prado. The other...

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Main Authors: Marianna S. Simpson, Richard L. Kagan
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Museo Nacional del Prado 2021-11-01
Series:Boletín del Museo del Prado
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Online Access:https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/boletin/two-seventeenth-century-garden-views-from-the/bd760dbc-942b-097f-d300-d9e88ac21d43
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Summary:Around 1660 the artist Benito Manuel Agüero completed thirty-three paintings for the «Salón» of Philip IV’s palace at Aranjuez. This pictorial program included seven large over window (sobreventana) paintings, of which five have long formed part of the collections in the Museo del Prado. The other two sobreventanas, depicting garden scenes of the Buen Retiro and El Pardo, were separated from the set, apparently in the early 19th century, and are discussed here for the first time.
ISSN:0210-8143
2952-0630