Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, inaugurated this Monday at the Museo del Greco in Toledo the exhibition “Tintoretto. The Venetian footprint”, an exhibition that allows you to discover the facet as a portraitist of El Greco and delve into the artistic footprint of the Venetian painter in his work.
During her speech, the delegate of the Government highlighted the relevance of this exhibition, “small in dimensions, but immense in meaning”, by bringing together the “Portrait of a senator”, by Tintoretto, with two portraits of the Greco belonging to the permanent collection of the museum: the “Portrait of Antonio de Covarrubias” and the “Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias”.
“The exhibition, therefore, allows us to fit one more piece into the great puzzle of the monumental pictorial work of El Greco and Spain,” said Milagros Tolón, who has also highlighted the role of the Museo del Greco as a public service and vehicle of knowledge in a context of “reductionism, negationism and intolerances” at a global level.
“Faced with this short-sighted vision of our history and our social reality, there is nothing better than the breadth of vision and the universality of emotions that art provides us represented in these two figures of painting,” he stressed in his speech.
In this regard, the delegate has highlighted the commitment of the Government of Spain to culture, with investments in 2024 greater than 1.5 million euros for the acquisition of pieces destined to the state museums of Castilla-La Mancha and grants of 530,000 euros for the conservation of heritage, including 400,000 euros destined to the Vega Baja.
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In addition, he recalled other initiatives such as the Young Cultural Voucher, with more than 15,000 beneficiaries in Castilla-La Mancha; the sustainability plans and the actions of the 2% Cultural, which have allowed to mobilize 4.2 million euros for the recovery of historical monuments in the region in the last resolution.
The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, will be open until June 8, 2025, with a program of parallel activities to spread and bring to the public the influence of these two great masters of universal art.
The event, directed by Carolina Tobella, curator of the Museum, was attended by the deputy mayor of Toledo, Inés Cañizares; the coordinator of the Board Delegation in Toledo, Javier Úbeda; the director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences of Toledo, Jesús Carrobles, and the director of the Sefardi Museum, Carmen Álvarez, among other representatives.