Between October 2015 and the beginning of 2016, several Portuguese cities are hosting the fourth edition of Mostra Espanha, an event organised by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport to promote Spanish creators in Portugal, the leading consumer of Spanish culture in the world.
The aim of the Mostra is to establish links between Spanish and Portuguese cultural institutions and, above all, artists and creators.
As in the previous edition, on which AC/E also collaborated, the opening ceremony will take place at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon (MNAA), which in 2013 showed two paintings by Francisco de Goya (the portraits of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma). This year it will be showing a work by El Greco: the Holy Family with Saint Anne belonging to the parish church of Santa Leocadia y San Román and on permanent loan to the Museo Santa Cruz in Toledo.
This programme run by the MNAA is intended to make known works by great masters of western painting from prominent museums and collections but rarely exhibited in Lisbon. The Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection are some of the institutions that are taking part.
