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Museo de Arte de Ponce announces exhibition of masterpieces from the Prado Museum

PONCE.- Museo de Arte de Ponce and Banco Santander announced the exhibit El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum, a selection of 25 paintings from the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. This prominent exhibit, which includes works by renowned artists such as Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco de Zurbarán, will be open to the public at Museo de Arte de Ponce from March 25 to July 9, 2012. The Prado’s director for conservation and research, Dr. Gabriele Finaldi, visited Puerto Rico for the announcement, joining María Luisa Ferré Rangel, president of Museo de Arte de Ponce Board of Trustees, Dr. Agustín Arteaga, the museum’s director and chief operating officer, and Javier Hidalgo Blazquez, chief executive officer and president of Banco Santander de Puerto Rico. Finaldi, born in London in 1965, is considered one of the world’s leading experts in Spanish and Italian