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Old 03-06-2009, 06:27 PM canarymoon is online now     #1 (permalink)
El Prado

OK - so it's in Madrid, and NOT located in a Seaport, but EL PRADO . . .
El Prado is THE museum I had always, always wanted to be able to visit... maybe not as long as I can remember, but since I was about 12 or 13, maybe.

Has anyone actually BEEN there? Anyone who has, would you please, please be so kind as to tell me anything and everything you are willing to share?

Did you see worls by El Greco? Velazquez? Goya?

Was it wonderful?

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Old 03-06-2009, 06:41 PM canarymoon is online now     #2 (permalink)
The Prado Museum is renowned as being the largest art gallery in the world. It also exhibits sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of arts, but it is undoubtedly its large collection of paintings which has given it fame worldwide. It houses more than 8,600 paintings, of which they exhibit less than 2,000 because of lack of space available. Many museums throughout the world have less artistic riches in their halls than the Prado Museum has in storage.




The multiple origins of the paintings of the Prado Museum allow us to classify its works according to the nationality of the original school:


The Italian school has among others, works by Andrea Mantenga, Sandro Botticelli, Rafael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Lorenzo Lotte, Tintoretto, Verones, Tiepolo and above all, Tiziano.

Early Flemish, with works by Rogier van der Veyden, Flemish master Hans Memling, Jochim Patinir, Quentin Metsys, Bernard van Orley, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel and the Flemish school with Rubens, Jordaens and Anton van Dyck.

The German, French and Dutch schools with works by Lucas Cranach, Albert Dürer, Nicolas Poussin, Claudio de Lorena and Rembrandt

The Spanish school is represented with works by our grand masters Bartolomé Bermejo, Pedro Berruguete, Luis de Morales, El Greco, Juan B. Maino, José de Ribera, Alonso Cano, Caudio Coello, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Luis Meléndez,Goya ..... and a long list of great artists.

Excerpted from: El Prado Museum Fine Art from MADRID SPAIN

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