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Artwork from Fernando Sánchez Castillo's exhibition The Wayward Pearl at Palacio de Velázquez

Palacio de Velázquez · Retiro

Fernando Sánchez Castillo: The Wayward Pearl

Now showing24 June 2026 – 8 March 2027·Free

A retrospective of over 200 works by Fernando Sánchez Castillo dismantling monuments and symbols of power, framed around the legend of a lost royal pearl.

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Andrea Canepa's Fardo installation wrapping the Palacio de Cristal facade

Fardo, by Andrea Canepa

Palacio de Cristal

The Year of the Famine in Madrid (1818) by José Aparicio, the painting at the centre of the exhibition

The Famine Painting

Museo del Prado

In the Italian Manner. Spain and the Mediterranean Gothic, 1320–1420

Museo del Prado

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