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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.
Museums hold large collections of items relating to their subject, building some of the largest complexes in the world in order to store and exhibit the collection in a controlled atmosphere. The world's most important museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space. [1]
Building Name City Country Gallery space in m 2 (ft 2) Year established Louvre: Paris France 72,735 (782,910) [2] 1792 State Hermitage Museum: St. Petersburg Russia 66,842 (719,480) [3] [note 1]
Triptychon , Öl auf Holz, 220 cm x 389 cm, ausgestellt im Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spanien. English : The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1480-1505) by Hieronymus Bosch . Oil on wood triptych, 220 cm x 389 cm, now in the Museo del Prado.
Madrid, Museo del Prado: 111 × 86 cm Oil on canvas: 1608: Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page: Paris, Musée du Louvre: 195 × 134 cm Oil on canvas: 1608: Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli: Florence, Pitti Palace: 118.5 × 95.5 cm Oil on canvas: 1608: Beheading of Saint John the Baptist: Valletta, St. John's Co-Cathedral: 361 × 520 cm ...
Museo Casa de la Moneda (Madrid) (House of Coins Museum) Imprenta Municipal-Artes del Libro [] Royal Conservatory Museum; Museo del Aire; Infante de Orleans Foundation (Historical Airplanes in Flight Museum) Guardia Civil Museum; MUMA Museum of Tanks Eduardo Torroja Museum; Insurance Museum (‘Museo del Seguro’) Wax Museum of Madrid ...
The Visitation is a c. 1517 painting of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Saint Elizabeth by Raphael, in the Prado Museum since 1837. [1] Commissioned by the Apostolic Protonotary Giovanni Branconio at his father Marino's request for their family chapel in the church of San Silvestre in Aquila (Marino's wife was called Elisabeth), it was plundered by the occupation troops of Philip IV of ...
Museo del Prado, Madrid The Sciences and the Arts is a 17th-century painting which is part of the collection of the Museo de Prado in Madrid. It has traditionally been attributed to Adriaen van Stalbemt , but more recently some art historians have re-attributed the work to Hieronymus Francken the Younger .