There's a saying in Madrid: you visit the Prado twice in your lifetime, first while holding your father's hand, then while holding your grandchild's. In reality, the museum is very loved and visited...
Before beginning our visit to the Prado Museum, I suggest looking closely at the map to identify the sections that interest you the most. Otherwise you risk being overwhelmed by the immensity of the...
On the ground floor, which is called level 0 on the maps, find the halls with the museum's oldest works, which include the magnificent section dedicated to German and Flemish painting and Italian...
Hall 56 is dedicated to the wonderful, whimsical world of Hieronymus Bosch, the Dutch painter who died at the beginning of the 1500s; you can admire his most important works in this room of the Prado...
The first floor offers the most scenic part of the Prado, illuminated by skylights in the halls' ceilings.
In the large central hall, you can gorge on sixteenth-century Italian paintings and Spanish...
If you're a fan of Titian, I have good news for you: the Prado has an impressive collection of twenty-five of the Venetian genius' paintings, as he was Emperor Charles V's favorite painter. This...
A unique personality from late 16th century painting which will surely remain impressed in your memories of the Prado is Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who was born on the island of Crete. At that time...
You've come to the hero of your tour, the supreme Diego Velázquez, the highest painter of the 1600s and possibly all of Spanish art. His paintings are displayed at the center of the museum's...
An entire section of the Prado at the end of the main hall and distributed among the ground, first, and second floors is dedicated to Francisco Goya, the greatest Spanish and European painter from the...
The Napoleonic invasion of Spain marked a breaking point in Goya's life. Until then his painting had been open to the lights and colors of eighteenth-century traditions; after this point we can see...
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