Eduardo Arroyo. The Mystic Lamb

The Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) hosts, until September 30, the exhibition Eduardo Arroyo. The Mystic Lamb. The exhibition includes some of the working materials that the artist used, from the photographs that served as his starting point to the preliminary sketches and coloured drawings in which he analysed the iconography of each panel. It also includes the panel of The Fountain of Grace by the school of Van Eyck from the Prado’s permanent collection. Inspired by the Ghent Altarpiece, it provides an example from the period in question of how to recreate a masterpiece.

In 2008 the painter Eduardo Arroyo (born Madrid, 1937) created his own version in black and white of the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb Altarpiece(c. 1432), also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, a work by Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert in the cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent. Arroyo produced full-size drawings in pencil on fibre paper of each of the twenty-one panels of the original polyptich.

A reflection on the modern meaning of the altarpiece, Arroyo’s reinterpretation is devoid of any sense of imitation, copy, or overly elaborate spirituality that descends into the grotesque, the caricatural or the critical.

Dates: from July 4 to September 30.
Location: Museo del Prado. Paseo del Prado s/n. 28014. Madrid.
Opening hours: from
Horario: de lunes a sábado de 10.00 a 20.00 horas. Domingos de 10.00 a 19.00 horas.