6 hours 11 minutes ago Madrid, May 31 (EFE) .- El Museo del Prado has gathered one of the most spectacular series in the history of the tapestry, "The Loves of Mercury and Herse", consisting of eight tapestries woven on the looms of Willem de Pannemaker exhibited in the first exhibition that the gallery devoted to these fabrics. Continue reading the printed article with gold thread and silk, the series tells the story inspired by the verses of Ovid on the loves of the god Mercury, son and messenger of Jpiter with Herse, daughter of the king of ethics. Two of the fabrics in this series, considered the best of the sixteenth century, belong to the Museo del Prado, which Bean never before exhibited, while two others are on loan from the Metropolitan in New York and the rest by three Spanish private collections waves. "This is the first time which the public can see the whole series. It is one of the more esplndidas and less known, conducted by Willem de Pannemaker, tapestry of the major royal houses and special Carlos V and Felipe II ", record Gabriele Finaldi, deputy director of the Museum. In your opinion, is a series esplndida by its size, its quality, its design, gold and silver , as well as the wealth of their funds, "which make each tapestry whole world." With this first exhibition of tapestries that are held at the Prado, the museum wished to raise two of his masterpieces "gathering eight brothers who broke up, "Letizia Azcue seal, head of conservation of Sculpture and Decorative Arts in the gallery." Right now, all over the world are putting in value estn tapestries, objects ultimate luxury that the Titians Valan ms were more cost parts of the collections, "he said. To make the series to be shown in the Prado needed a great painter, who disear cartons of 4×6 square meters each, and weavers. 'According to studies we have done, a person pruning weave half a meter a month in a tel to this category, so that eight people had taken four years to conduct the eight fabrics ", he added Azcue. The conservative stresses that the series, which used 20 kilos of silver thread golden "is one of the most spectacular in the history of the tapiceray, of course, unique in Europe." Concha Herrero Carretero, Tapestry conservative National Heritage and curator of the exhibition, consider the series tapestry as "the history of cinema" because, he said, "it is escnicas sequences that are telling a story." The series was intact in their number but not in their state of conservation, so which he said the curator, some interventions have been enhanced, "which have proved to AOPs riqusimos in color and more colorful now preserved." Investigations carried out during the LAST AOY nance half the Duke of Lerma and favorite of Philip III as its first owner. The exhibition included in the tour, portrait of the Duke painted by Rubens, as well as some pictures of Giovanni Volpato the Vatican loggias that are considered source iconogrfica of the borders of the tapestries. Also the studies ECENT nance the author of the cartoons in the circle of Raphael "and though It still do not have security, we think that may have been painted by Giovanni Battista Lodi, illustrator and cartoonist active in Brussels, "said the Commissioner. Willem de Pannemaker, active from 1535-1581 and a member of one of the more famous family of weavers settled in Brussels, was the great tapestry Flemish Renaissance. "All his works are considered masterpieces", according to the curator. The exhibition remains open until September 26 Skynet and when finished, and following the agreement signed between the Museo del Prado the Foundation Casa Ducal de Medinaceli, the two tapestries for museum Cederna joint exhibicin Tavera Hospital in Toledo with the two tapestries that retains this Fundacin. Mila Trends