Press Release
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain
Press Contact:
Anabeth Guthrie
(202) 842-6804
a-guthrie@nga.gov
Chief Press Officer
Deborah Ziska
ds-ziska@nga.gov
(202) 842-6353
Release Date: June 16, 2009
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1) Art handlers and crane operators carefully
load into the West Building a one thousand-pound crate containing one
of three tapestries in the exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor
and Portraits from Imperial Spain, on view at the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, June 28-November 29, 2009. |
2) Art handlers and crane operators carefully
load into the West Building a one thousand-pound crate containing one
of three tapestries in the exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor
and Portraits from Imperial Spain, on view at the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, June 28-November 29, 2009. |
3) Art handlers carefully unroll from left-to-right
using a lift, the six hundred-pound tapestry Review of the Troops
at Barcelona, from the series "The Conquest of Tunis" (c.1554)
lent by the Royal Palace in Madrid. The tapestry is one of many magnificent
objects on view in the exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor and
Portraits from Imperial Spain, on view at the National Gallery of
Art, Washington, June 28-November 29, 2009. |
4) Art handlers carefully unfold from top-to-bottom
using a wench-operated mast-style lift truck, the eight hundred-pound
tapestry Fame from the series The Honors (c. 1520),
lent by the Tapestry Museum at the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso.
The tapestry is one of many magnificent objects on view in the exhibition The
Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, on
view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 28-November 1,
2009. |
5) Art handlers carefully unpack a horse
model in preparation for the installation of one of three sets of equestrian
armor, on view in the exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor and
Portraits from Imperial Spain, on view at the National Gallery of
Art, Washington, June 28-November 29, 2009. |
6) Alvaro Soler del Campo, director of the
Royal Armory, Madrid, and Mark Leithauser, chief of the design department,
National Gallery of Art, install the exquisite Italian-made parade helmet
of Emperor Charles V (1533), the first object visitors will see in the
exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial
Spain, on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June
28-November 29, 2009. |
7) Alvaro Soler del Campo, director of the
Royal Armory, Madrid, adjusts the exquisite Italian-made parade helmet
of Emperor Charles V (1533), the first object visitors will see in the
exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial
Spain, on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June
28-November 29, 2009. |
8) Victorino Lastras, conservator from the
Royal Armory in Madrid, completes installation of the magnificent full
garniture of German-made armor of Emperor Charles V (c.1525) in front
of the tapestry Review of the Troops at Barcelona, from the
series "The Conquest of Tunis" (c.1554), in the exhibition The
Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, on
view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 28-November 1,
2009. |
9) Alvaro Soler del Campo, director of the
Royal Armory, Madrid, completes installation of the full garniture of
Italian-made armor of Emperor Charles V (1539) in the exhibition The
Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, on
view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 28-November 1,
2009. |
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