Like the Teatro Real the Prado is celebrating its 200 year anniversary. Rick says “ With more than 3,000 canvases, including entire rooms of masterpieces by superstar painters, the Prado is my vote for the greatest collection anywhere of paintings by the European masters. The Prado is the place to enjoy the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, and it’s also the home of Diego Valazquez’s Las Meninas, considered by many to the be world’s finest painting, period.”
Anyhow - I spent half a day here. I particularly liked the Spanish painters with their Realism and Nativism. One gets a little overwhelmed by too many Christian (Christ, virgin birth, stages of the cross, church related, promotion of the faith etc) type of paintings. The works of Goya were refreshing and realistic. I would go again because one gets visually exhausted with too many paintings. An art history buff could spend days here. An audio guide was most helpful in interpreting different paintings and artists. Most of these are by Goya. I found it difficult to find images to post but thanks to my newfound IPad skills I found these on the web.
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