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The Prado Museum in Spain is the largest art gallery in the world. Besides collection of paintings it also exhibits sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of arts. There are 8, 600 paintings at the museum, out of which less than 2, 000 are exhibited because of scarcity of exhibiting area. The collections of the gallery include the royal collections of the old Trinidad Museum, donations, acquisitions and legacies.
The Museo del Prado was constructed during the reign of Charles III. The king desired to get a monument erected where he could see each and every work of art under one roof. Prado in Spanish means meadow. Monumental fountains (Apollo or the Four Seasons, Cibeles, Neptune, etc) embellish green landscape.
Various schools of Prado paintings:
Works by Andrea Mantenga, Sandro Botticelli, Rafael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Lorenzo Lotte, Tintoretto, Verones, Tiepolo and Tiziano belong to The Italian school.
Works by Rogier van der Veyden, Hans Memling, Jochim Patinir, Quentin Metsys, Bernard van Orley, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, the Rubens, Jordaens and Anton van Dyck belong to Flemish school of art.
Works by Lucas Cranach, Albert, Nicolas Poussin, Claudio de Lorena and Rembrandt belong to German, French and Dutch schools of art.
Works by our grand masters Bartolome Bermejo, Pedro Berruguete, Luis de Morales, El Greco, Juan B. Maino, Jose de Ribera, Alonso Cano, Caudio Coello, Zurbaen, Velezquez, Murillo, Luis Melendez, Goya belong to the Spanish school.
Time Schedule:
Tuesdays to Saturdays from 9am to 7pm
Sundays and holidays (24th and 31st December) from 9 am to 2 pm
Mondays: closed
Closed 1st January, good Friday, 1st May, 25th December
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