Donation: The Risen Christ by Giulio Clovio, ca. 1550. Recorded on January 22, 2025
From January 20 to March 9, 2025, the Museo del Prado exhibits The Risen Christ by Giulio Clovio recently donated by the American Friends of the Prado Museum thanks to the generosity of Pilar Conde Gutiérrez del Álamo.
The exhibit celebrates the first work by Giulio Clovio, considered the best miniaturist and illuminator of the Renaissance, to enter into the Museo del Prado’s collection.
The Risen Christ remained in a private collection in Spain until shortly before being acquired by Pilar Conde Gutiérrez del Álamo, who generously donated it to the American Friends of the Prado Museum in 2019. It has remained in deposit at the Museum from that moment until late last year when its entry into its collections became effective thanks to the donation from the American organization. Its director, Christina Simmons, comments that “American Friends’ mission is to foster patronage in favor of the Prado Museum. We are enormously grateful to Pilar Conde for her generosity in donating this delicate work by Clovio and we are excited to have helped incorporate this piece into the Prado collections.”
Miguel Falomir, Director of the Prado Museum – who considers this work by Giulio Clovio to be a jewel of the Renaissance, due to its quality and exceptionality –, expresses his gratitude to American Friends of the Prado Museum and its previous owner, Pilar Conde, for their generosity and for contributing to the visibility of this work historically linked to Spain, by one of the great illuminators of the 16th century. Likewise, until this donation, there was only one work conserved in Spain by this artist, The Holy Family with Saint Isabel and Saint John in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid.”
Pilar Conde comments that it is a great satisfaction to have contributed to expanding the Museum’s collections with this piece, which up until now did not have a work by Clovio. In Conde’s words, “I hope that when the public sees the work they will enjoy the Clovio as much as I have.”
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