Museo del Prado
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Address: Paseo del Prado s/n 28014 MadridWebsite: www.museodelprado.es Uploaded artworks: 746 Uploaded artist: 218
The Museo del Prado features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, it also contains important collections of more than 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals, and almost 2,000 decorative objects and works of art. Sculpture is represented by more than 700 works and by a smaller number of sculptural fragments. It is one of the most visited sites in Madrid.
The museum was opened in 1819. Upon the deposition of Isabella II in 1868, the museum was nationalized and acquired the new name of "Museo del Prado". The building housed the royal collection of arts, and it rapidly proved too small. The first enlargement to the museum took place in 1918.
The main building was enlarged with short pavilions in the back between 1900 and 1960. The next enlargement was the incorporation of two buildings (nearby but not adjacent) into the institutional structure of the museum: the Casón del Buen Retiro which housed the bulk of the 20th century art from 1971 to 1997, and the Salon de Reinos (Throne building), formerly the Army Museum.
The last enlargement (2007), designed by architect Rafael Moneo, is an underground building which connects the main building to another one entirely reconstructed.
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López y Portana, Vicente
Portrait of Fernando VII
Date: 1814 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Juanes, Juan de
Melchizedek, King of Salem
Date: Movement: Renaissance (Late, Mannerism) Theme: Old Testament Technique: Other/Unknown
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de
Summer
Date: 1786-1787 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Velázquez, Diego
The Fable of Arachne
Date: 1657 Movement: Baroque Theme: Mythology Technique: Oil on canvas
Titian
Religion Helped by Spain
Date: c. 1571 Movement: Renaissance (High Italian, "Cinquecento") Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Hamen, Juan van der
Offering to Flora
Date: 1627 Movement: Baroque Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Rubens, Peter Paul
The Cardinal Infante
Date: c. 1634 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Rubens, Peter Paul
Garden of Love
Date: c. 1633 Movement: Baroque Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Titian
La Gloria
Date: 1551-54 Movement: Renaissance (High Italian, "Cinquecento") Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Carreno De Miranda, Juan
Duke of Pastrana
Date: No info Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Velázquez, Diego
Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter
Date: 1632-33 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Mignard, Pierre
Saint John the Baptist
Date: 1688 Movement: Baroque Theme: Saints Technique: Oil on canvas
