Exhibition Prado Museum: The Sleeping Beauty. Victorian Painting from The Museo de Arte de Ponce

Exhibition Prado Museum: The Sleeping Beauty. Victorian Painting from The Museo de Arte de Ponce
February 24 - May 31, 2009

For historical reasons, 19th-century British art is one of the least well represented areas in Spanish collections, including that of the Prado, which has very few examples of Victorian painting. For this reason the Museo del Prado has decided to organise the present exhibition, which offers a carefully chosen selection of English paintings. They are loaned by the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, which is temporarily closed for re-modelling, and include The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones, and Flaming June by Frederic, Lord Leighton. Both paintings will travel to the Prado after their display at Tate Britain.
The exhibition comprises 17 works in total, of which 10 are paintings and 6 are drawings and a watercolour. It will allow the public to become acquainted with both 19th-century English painting and with highlights of the museum founded in Ponce.
The exhibition also includes paintings by artists such as John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Thomas Seddon (1821-1856) and William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). They were painted during the various different phases of the movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was founded in 1848 with the initial aim of reforming English painting, at that date governed by the conservative strictures of the Royal Academy. The Pre-Raphaelites based themselves on a new vision of nature and on their quest to rediscover the aesthetic innocence of the Early Renaissance painters. More...
http://www.museodelprado.es/en/ingles/exposiciones/info/en-el-museo/pintura-prerrafaelita-del-museo-de-arte-de-ponce-de-san-juan-de-puerto-rico/la-exposicion/

You have probably heard of the Google Earth high resolution images of the Masterpieces in the Prado (there is a post and link on this blog), but the Prado has updated it's site. So here it is again.
Just click on the Goya image below or here: The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid: the executions on Principe Pio hill to go to the high resolution image.

15 Masterpieces
http://www.museodelprado.es/en/en/welcome/15-masterpieces/
14 masterpieces from the Museo del Prado in mega-high resolution on Google Earth
With the launch of a new project by Google, the Museo del Prado becomes the first museum in the world to offer high-resolution images of its masterpieces for access and navigation on the Internet. These images will reveal details invisible to the naked eye of paintings such as Las Meninas and The Three Graces.

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de
The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid: the executions on Principe Pio hill. A depiction of the execution of patriots from Madrid by a firing squad from Napoleon’s army in reprisal for their uprising against the French occupation on the second of May, 1808.

http://www.museodelprado.es/en/bienvenido/15-masterpieces/ficha-obra/obra/el-3-de-mayo-de-1808-en-madrid-los-fusilamientos-en-la-montana-del-principe-pio-2/