Transformed gods
Metamorphosed gods (Spanish title: Entre Dioses y Hombres. Esculturas Clásicas del Albertinum de Dresde y el Museo del Prado , complete German title: Metamorphosed gods - ancient sculptures of the Museo del Prado hosted in Dresden ) was the title of one in Madrid and Dresden in 2008 and 2009, in which, after 300 years, sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were once again brought together in one collection .
The exhibition was realized thanks to the longstanding scientific collaboration between the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . 46 pieces from the Dresden and 20 pieces from the Madrid collection were on display. They were bought around the same time by Saxon (1728 for August the Strong ) and Spanish (for Philip V ) buyers from the Roman collections of Chigi , Albani and the collection of the former Swedish Queen Christina for their regents and their collections, and today they form one important part of the collections in Dresden and the Prado. The Dresden pieces were shown outside the city for the first time since they were purchased. The exhibition in Madrid was presented in ten newly designed rooms and I. Juan Carlos opened. It could be viewed from November 4, 2008 to April 12, 2009. The exhibition in Dresden was shown from May 20 to September 27, 2009 in the Japanisches Palais . The curator of the exhibition was Stephan F. Schröder , curator of the Department of Antiquity and Renaissance Sculpture at the Prado. The Spanish government paid 75% of the costs.
The 64 pieces in the exhibition ranged from the Classical Greek period through the Hellenistic and Roman times to late antiquity . On display were pieces by the four most important ancient sculptors Phidias , Myron , Polyklet and Praxiteles . The concept of the exhibition envisaged, on the one hand, allowing pieces from both collections to enter into a dialogue, on the other hand, creating separate subject areas. On the one hand, sculptures from late antiquity are shown, which were early Christian evidence, and on the other hand evidence of the last offshoots of the pagan ancient religions that still existed for a time. From the Dresden collection, among other things, the Athena Lemnia , the Dresden maenad , the Dresden Herculan women , the Dresden boy and a head of Apollo, from the Prado the Madrid Dionisos and a resting satyr . In addition, there were portraits of Emperors Maxentius (Dresden) and Constantine the Great (Madrid).
literature
- Stephan F. Schröder : Transformed gods. Ancient sculptures of the Museo del Prado visited Dresden , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen and Museo del Prado, Dresden and Madrid 2009 ISBN 978-3-86560-641-9
- Stephan F. Schröder: Entre dioses y hombres esculturas clásicas del Albertinum de Dresden y el Museo del Prado , Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado 2008 ISBN 978-84-8480-164-1 ; ISBN 978-84-95241-59-7