Annibale Carracci exhibition installation. The Herrera Chapel frescoes

Exhibition production

Museo Nacional del Prado

2022

An exhibition on the painter Annibale Carracci, with an extraordinary montage that allowed visitors to walk through the different levels of the Herrera Chapel and recreate its decoration.

This exhibition brought together an exceptionally important group of mural paintings, which can be considered the great unknown in Annibale Carracci's catalogue: the surviving frescoes from the chapel of the family of Juan Enriquez de Herrera at the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli (Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) in Rome. The recent restoration of the seven frescoes conserved in the Prado and the collaboration of the National Art Museum of Catalonia and the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica Palazzo Barberini in Rome have allowed the study, understanding and enhancement o f the ensemble. Despite being the most important commission received by Carracci at the end of his career, these frescoes, which depict scenes from the life of Saint Diego de Alcalá, an Andalusian Franciscan who died in 1463, are practically unknown to the general public due to their dispersal, among other reasons.

Work carried out: Production and assembly of museography and lighting.

Photographs: © Museo Nacional del Prado.