The Museo del Prado is launching its new exhibition format "A work, a story"

The writer Umberto Eco imagined an ideal museum dedicated to a single work of art: a space where stories would accumulate around it, culminating, as the ultimate exercise, in the public's contemplation and understanding. This vision resonates powerfully in the Museo del Prado's new exhibition format "A work, a story", a concept ideally suited to The Year of Hunger in Madrid by José Aparicio (1818). In the words of Miguel Falomir, director of the Museo del Prado, the aim of the exhibition is “to encourage the viewer to look at a work which, aside from its aesthetic merits, helps us to reflect on aspects of art history that often go unnoticed." This canvas, one of the most acclaimed and controversial in the collection of the Museo del Prado since it first opened in 1819, is filled with events and figures that demonstrate how a single work can reconstruct the complexity of a past world without losing its contemporary relevance. The return to the Museum, albeit on a temporary basis, o