Portús, Javier
Javier Portús is senior curator of Spanish Painting (up to 1700) at the Museo del Prado. He holds a doctorate in Art History and specializes in art historiography and the visual culture of the Golden Age in Spain. Among other studies, he is the author of La sala reservada del Museo del Prado y el coleccionismo de pintura de desnudo en la corte española (1998), Pintura y pensamiento en la España de Lope de Vega (1999) or El concepto de pintura española (2012). Portús has curated several exhibitions, such as El retrato español: del Greco a Picasso (2004), Fábulas de Velázquez: mitología e Historia Sagrada en el Siglo de Oro (2008), Velázquez y la familia de Felipe IV (2013-2014) and Meta-painting. A Journey to the Idea of Art (2016), all at the Museo del Prado.








