By Corina Pons and Guillermo Martinez
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MADRID: Seeking to breathe new life into Madrid s Prado museum after the long months of the pandemic, curators have overhauled the collection to display more works by female artists and better reflect the variety of 19th-century art.
After recent acquisitions of paintings and miniatures, the museum now boasts works by 13 female painters out of a total of 130 artists.
The miniatures, often intimate family portraits, require great technical skill but could be created in small workshops, making them popular among female artists who lacked large studios in the 19th century.
There are now seven rooms with works by women such as Marcela de Valencia and Maria Blanchard, the museum s head of 19th-century painting conservation, Javier Baron, told Reuters.
Spain s Prado overhauls collection to highlight women artists
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Prado museum in Spain to display work by women artists, 19th-century art
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