The scientist who discovers the secrets of the Prado: "The classical painters were intuitive neuroscientists, discovered the rules with which we see and built the world to give us back illusions"

We visited the Prado Museum next to neuroscientist Fernando Giráldez, whose new book shows how painters like Titian or El Greco ‘intuited’ the functioning of the brain centuries before science got it Read

The neuroscience specialist describes how the great painters did reverse engineering of the visual system and learned to represent reality by blurring it, to make it more faithful to how we perceive the Hemeroteca - Your gaze has a lot of art: the movement of the eyes betrays what style you are contemplating Velázquez, Titian or Goya were great connoisseurs of the visual system, to the point that they learned to paint “worst”—with less precision…

The masterworks of Rembrandt and Caravaggio stand as exemplars of the classical European artistic tradition. Their revolutionary approaches to light and shadow established techniques that influenced generations of artists. The classical tradition was not just a style, but a comprehensive approach to artistic creation, combining technical virtuosity with profound human observation. This classical foundation continued to resonate through subsequen…