The full title of this exhibition, organized by the Museo del Prado and Obra Social "la Caixa", is Rubens, Brueghel and Lorraine, The northern landscape in the Prado. It gathers a selection of works ascribed to landscape and made in the seventeenth century by authors of Flanders and the Netherlands.
During the Middle Ages, the Italians called 'Nordic' to all the painters of the lands beyond the Alps. These artists turned away from personal heroic themes of history painting that dominated at the time, to develop more everyday themes such as landscape, which went on to become an independent pictorial genre.
The 36 paintings that make up the exhibition come from the collections of the Museum del Prado and bring together the foremost masters of the genre. Apart from Rubens, Brueghel and Lorraine, works can be seen by Tobias Verhaecht, David Teniers the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Simon Vileger, Denis van Alsloot and Hendrik de Clerck, Joos de Momper the Younger and Peeter-Snayers, among others.
