Sculpting Color. Masterpieces of the National Sculpture Museum, Valladolid

In the 17th century, Spanish workshops reached a peak of realism where the boundary between painting and sculpture blurred. The Louvre Museum orchestrates a masterful encounter between the paintings of Francisco de Zurbarán and rare pieces coming from Valladolid. This shared staging allows us to observe how artists of the time used wood and paint to create figures with almost human presence. As we move between the works, we capture the games of glances and the cross-influences that defined the Golden Age. These masterpieces of polychrome statuary, rarely seen outside of Spain, offer an intense visual experience. It is a valuable opportunity to grasp the expressive power of an art that, above all, sought to bring life to matter.