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Objects Speak Museo del Prado Collections CaixaForum Girona Until 26th January 2014 CaixaForum Lleida From 20th February to 20th July 2014 The philosopher Martin Heidegger said that ‘objects speak’, reflecting on the artist’s gaze and their ability to dignify what they show in their work. The exhibition, co-organized by the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation and the Museo del Prado within their ongoing collaboration in educational and exhibition matters, paraphrases Heidegger and proposes a route, both geographic and chronological, through the Museo del Prado collections to bring viewers closer to the objects that surround us, that we use naturally, automatically or consciously and are an essential part of our lives. Objects Speak brings together a selection of sixty paintings and objects from the main Spanish, Flemish, Italian and French schools from the 16 th to the 19 th century, and reveals to us the importance of objects to understand what the artist wants to communicate to us. In addition, the importance of their worth in identifying the character represented in the painting: from their social stratum and the iconography of gods and saints to the transformation of the object as a collectable piece. The show includes the masterpieces of artists like Francisco de Goya, Peter Paul Rubens, El Greco, Luca Giordano, Joaquín Sorolla, Bartolomé E. Murillo, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, José de Ribera and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Louis-Michel van Loo. Diana en un paisaje/ Diane in a Landscape , 1739. © Museo Nacional del Prado 25