José Sacristán glosses the Prado Museum by means of Ramón Gaya: “It is a kind of homeland” | Culture | EUROtoday

The Prado Museum has printed this Monday a video on its social networks through which the actor José Sacristán, a necessary interpreter of the Spanish stage and cinema, offers voice to the reflections that Ramón Gaya on the Madrid artwork gallery, the masters of portray and the essence of artwork expressed in his 1953 essay Spanish rock. The recording was made to rejoice the incorporation of the unique manuscript of the guide to the establishment’s funds, donated by his widow, Isabel Verdejo.

The work “condenses the deep relationship of the Murcian painter and writer with the Prado and his role in Spanish cultural identity,” the Prado says in a press release, informing that the textual content will grow to be a part of the Museum Library. “The initiative to remember the figure of Ramón Gaya and his unique vision of the Prado Museum is born from the will of this institution to value culture and the weight of art in our identity,” says the printed writing.

Ramón Gaya, the Murcia author and painter who died in 2005, had an in depth relationship with the Prado Museum since he visited it for the primary time on the age of 17 due to a scholarship from the Murcia City Council. This establishment was his foremost pictorial and emotional reference all through his profession. The bond was strengthened much more when, within the Pedagogical Missions of 1932, he copied works from the museum to take them to rural areas as a part of a “people’s museum”, an emblem of his social and academic dedication.

After being exiled in the course of the Civil War, Gaya referred to the Prado as “a kind of homeland,” a spot of belonging and luxury, each bodily and non secular.

The 2025 of the Prado

With the publication of this video, the Prado has taken the chance to bid farewell to the 12 months 2025. The museum celebrates a brand new document of tourists, for the third consecutive 12 months, with a complete of three,479,838 attendees, surpassing the three,457,057 million guests final 12 months. In its word, the establishment remembers that it reached a historic second on September 15 of King Felipe VI on September 15, commenting Las Meninas to rejoice 1,000 reside broadcasts on Instagram.