The Siglo de Oro on Stage: Los manuscritos hablan

Acclaimed classical trained actor, Luis Carlos de la Lombana will bring to life the authors of Spain’s Siglo de Oro whose texts inspired Pablo Picasso’s prints featured in Picasso and the Spanish Classics.

About Luis Carlos de la Lombana

Luis Carlos de La Lombana is originally from Spain and who works as an actor and voice over artist in New York City since 2008. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Founder and Executive Director of La Strada Company and member of New Circle Theater Company. Also member of the National Classical Theater Company in Spain.

About the exhibition Picasso and the Spanish Classics

Throughout his life, Picasso affirmed his Spanish heritage, and he frequently found inspiration in literary masterworks from his homeland. Curator at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Dr. Patrick Lenaghan has drawn from the institution’s exemplary holdings, with a particular focus on their Library’s vast resources, to curate an exhibition that focuses on Picasso’s reinterpretation of the literary classics of his native land and particularly, his engagement with two literary giants of the seventeenth century, or Spain’s Siglo de oro: Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561–1627) and Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). The exhibition will also highlight Picasso’s reinterpretation of Velázquez’s Portrait of Góngora, the artist’s vision of the ideal woman, and his depiction of the iconic figures from Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote. Featuring a recent acquisition, Picasso’s suite of prints, Góngora’s Vingt poëmes (1948), the show will display rarely seen works of art alongside seventeenth-century editions and manuscripts.