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Vatican City, Sep 24 (EFE) .- (Camera: Toni Conde Molina) The Vatican Museums on Friday inaugurated the exhibition with the paintings of Saints Peter and Paul, a sample of "two imposing and wonderful paintings", which, with the confirmation that the author is Rafael Sanzio, adds a new work by the famous artist to the Vatican collections, the director of the museums, Barbara Jatta, explained to Efe.FOOTAGE FROM THE EXHIBITION "SAINTS PETER AND PAUL DE RAFAEL AND BROTHER BARTOLOMÉ. A TRIBUTE TO THE PATRONS OF ROME", FROM THE VATICAN MUSEUMS.SOUNDBITES BY BARBARA JATTA, DIRECTOR OF VATICAN MUSEUMSTRANSLATION:1. It is said that Fra Bartolomé left Rome around 1514, leaving the San Pedro unfinished, having already painted the San Pablo, and this is attested by all the examinations and investigations carried out during the restoration. So today we have one more Raphael in the Vatican collections. "
Brussels, Sep 14 (EFE / EPA) .- The Spanish Embassy in Belgium opened Tuesday an exhibition by artist Gonzalo Orquín, who tells anonymous stories about European immigration through his realistic paintings.(Camera: LEO RODRIGUEZ)SHOT LIST: THE EXHIBITION "TODO OCEANO SE VE AFECTADO POR UN GUJARRO" BY ARTISTS GONZALO ORQUIN AT THE SPANISH EMBASSY IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
London (UK), Sep 15 (EFE).- (Camera: Clàudia Sacrest) The iron of the fence that guarded for almost twenty years the US Embassy in Oslo, a strategic point of NATO, rests since Tuesday in the Regent's London Park transformed into a sculpture by the Spanish artist Jorge Otero-Pailos, along with other works from the Frieze Sculpture fair.FOOTAGE OF THE WORK BY THE SPANISH ARTIST JORGE OTERO-PAILOS. SOUNDBITES OF CLARE LILLEY, CHIEF OF THE 2021 FRIEZE SCULPTURE EXHIBITION.
Vienna (Austria), Sep 12 (EFE) .- (Camera: Antonio Sánchez) The Leopold Museum in Vienna has expanded its 'Vienna in 1900' with additions to 'The Schedlmayer Collection: A Discovery!', a private collection with works of architect Otto Prutscher.In 1989, pharmaceutical businessman Fritz Schedlmayer and his wife Hermi acquired the Villa Rothberger, built in 1902 in Baden, about 30 kilometres south of Vienna, and began a restoration during which they discovered the work of Otto Prutscher, a contemporary modernist artist.Prutscher, a representative of Viennese modernism, still relatively unknown today, had remodelled the house in 1912, transforming an unoriginal building applying principles of Viennese modernism.From there, the Schedlmayer family began to investigate his work and life and to acquire pieces designed by him: cabinets, display cabinets, glasses, vases, chairs, clocks and all kinds of pieces with the beauty and functionality of the Jugendstil (Viennese modernism).With this exhibition, the Leopold Museum, founded 20 years ago, expands the project "Vienna in 1900", a permanent exhibition launched in 2019 that explains the creative explosion, the political and intellectual upheaval that was lived at the time in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.FOOTAGE OF THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM AND THE PRIVATE COLLECTION DEDICATED TO OTTO PRUTSCHER.
Laredo (Spain), Jul 28 (EFE) .- (Camera: Pedro Puente) A school in The Spanish region of Cantabria that bears the name of Pablo Picasso is looking to reaffirm its identity with a graffiti mural of Picasso's Guernica on its main facade twice the size of the original.The graffiti is 17 meters wide and 6 meters long, twice as big as the original.FOOTAGE OF THE MURAL AT THE 'PABLO PICASSO' DE LAREDO SCHOOL.