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La Virgen de la leche. Artemisia Gentileschi. 1609-1610. Colección FMCMP
© Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson. Autor: Marcos Morilla

Coinciding with the festive season, the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson is pleased to announce the exhibition, for the first time in Spain, of The Virgin Nursing the Child, a masterpiece by Artemisia Gentileschi.

To mark the occasion of its display, the work has been studied by Leticia Ruiz Gómez, PhD in Art History and head of the Spanish Renaissance Painting Department and the Frames Division at the Museo de Prado, who will give a lecture entitled Virgo lactans: Artemisia Gentileschi in the FMCMP Collection in which she will discuss the iconography of the Virgin breastfeeding, Artemisia’s creative context and the unique value of the painting in the artist’s career.

The lecture will take place in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium at the FMCMP Madrid Centre at 7.15 pm.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com 

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Leticia Ruiz Gómez
Leticia Ruiz Gómez has a PhD in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid and is also a graduate of the Madrid School of Conservation and Restoration, where she has also taught classes. 

In 1999 she was admitted to Spain’s museum conservator corps and assigned to the Museo del Prado, where for more than twenty years she was head of the Spanish Painting before 1700 Department and the Frames Division. 

She has focused a major part of her career on the study of El Greco, on whom she is currently completing a catalogue raisonné of his work, having published one on the El Greco works at the Museo del Prado in 2008. 

She has curated numerous exhibitions on Renaissance artists and early Spanish Naturalism, with a particular emphasis on El Greco (the last was held in 2022 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) but also including figures like Juan Correa de Vivar, Luis de Morales, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, and Juan Bautista Maíno, on whom she published an essay in 2009. 

Between December 2020 and October 2024, she was head of Royal Collections at Patrimonio Nacional where, among other tasks, she led the museography project and the inauguration in June 2023 of the Royal Collections Gallery. 

In November 2024 she returned to the Museo del Prado as head of the Spanish Renaissance Department and the Frames Division.