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In the Italian Manner: Spain and the Mediterranean Gothic, 1320-1420

The Virgin of Tobed Jaume Serra, 1359–62.

May 26 – Sept 20, 2026
Museo Nacional del Prado. Paseo del Prado s/n. Madrid. 28014

In 14th-century Spain, Italian art was everywhere. Painters, sculptors, and craftsmen from across the Iberian kingdoms absorbed the innovations of the Italian trecento, blending Florentine and Sienese influence with local tradition to produce a visual culture that was rich and strange. The Prado is staging the first major exhibition to map this exchange in depth. From 56 institutions worldwide, it brings together over 100 pieces of painting, sculpture, goldsmithery, manuscript illumination, embroidery, and silk. Works by Italian masters Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Gherardo Starnina sit alongside those of Spanish painters Ferrer Bassa and the Serra brothers, tracing the routes by which ideas traveled across the western Mediterranean between 1320 and 1420, and what happened to them when they arrived. —Elena Clavarino

Photo courtesy of Museo Nacional del Prado