On display until 25 March 2025 in Rooms A and B of the Jerónimos Building, the Museo del Prado and Fundación AXA are presenting Hand in hand. Sculpture and colour in the spanish golden age, an exhibition that focuses on the success of Baroque polychrome sculpture and its close relationship with painting.

It achieves this aim through a spectacular installation of almost one hundred sculptures by masters of the stature of Gaspar Becerra, Alonso Berruguete, Gregorio Fernández, Damián Forment, Juan de Juni, Francisco Salzillo, Juan Martínez Montañés and Luisa Roldán. Displayed alongside these works are paintings and engravings which emulate or reproduce them in the manner of mirror images, in addition to classical works that demonstrate the importance of colour in sculpture since Antiquity.

Curated by Manuel Arias Martínez, Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Museo Nacional del Prado, the exhibition defends the importance of polychrome sculpture for a comprehensive understanding of Spanish art while also exhibiting for the first time five important works recently acquired by the Museum: The good thief and the bad thief by Alonso Berruguete, Saint John the Baptist by Juan de Mesa, and Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus which were part of a late medieval, Castilian Descent from the Cross.