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The Museo del Prado (/ ˈ p r ɑː d oʊ / PRAH-doh; Spanish pronunciation: [muˈseo ðel ˈpɾaðo]), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.
The Casón del Buen Retiro is an annex of the Museo del Prado complex in Madrid. Following major restoration work, which was completed in October 2007, [ 1 ] it now houses the museum's study centre (the Escuela del Prado) and library.
Miss Martha Carr, c. 1789, portrait by Thomas Lawrence.. The collection of twenty-eight British paintings in the Museo del Prado is one of only two significant collections of British art in Spain - the other is the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, a private collection influenced by the personal taste of Paula Florido, the wife of its founder José Lázaro Galdiano.
Museo del Prado, Madrid Las Meninas ( Spanish for ' The Ladies-in-waiting ' [ a ] pronounced [las meˈninas] ) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid , by Diego Velázquez , the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque .
The Martyrdom of Saint Philip (Spanish: Martirio de San Felipe) is a painting by Jusepe de Ribera from 1639.. It is considered one of his best works. The Spanish critic Eugenio d'Ors said of it " almost, almost like a Russian ballet."
The Prado Mona Lisa is a painting by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci and depicts the same subject and composition as Leonardo's better known Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Paris. The Prado Mona Lisa has been in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain since 1819, [1] but was considered for decades a relatively unimportant copy. [2]
However, since 1901 they have been exhibited together at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. [1] Beforehand, it was twice in the collection of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando , also in Madrid, before being " sequestered " by the Spanish Inquisition between 1814 and 1836.
Museo del Prado, Madrid Agnus Dei (Latin for Lamb of God ) is an oil painting completed between 1635 and 1640 by the Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán . It is housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid , Spain.