Art News and Announcements

The major exhibition of the year at the Toledo Museum is the current (March 16-April 27) Survey of Spanish Painting from the Twelfth Century to Goya. The exhibition is probably the most complete showing of Spanish painting ever assembled outside of Spain, and includes examples not only of all the great artists, but of many of the little-known or anonymous masters.The selections were made by José Gudiol, formerly Director of the Episcopal Museum of Vich, Spain, and currently Carnegie Annual Professor at the Toledo Museum. Included are sixty canvases and a remarkable set of Romanesque frescoes from San Baudelio de Berlanga, a Mozarabic chapel near Soria, which were successfully transferred to canvas some years ago, and are considered of unique importance among Romanesque mural paintings. These frescoes have been installed in a full-scale reconstruction of the vaulted interior of the chapel. There are also twenty-five tempera retables from Valencia, Catalonia, Aragon, and Castile, dating in the 14th and 15th centuries, and showing the varied stylistic influences from Flanders, France, Italy, and Germany upon the Spanish painters of this late Gothic period.