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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.
Museo del Prado; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Atocha Headquarters (Sabatini and Nouvel buildings)Palacio de Velázquez (Retiro Park) ...
Ecce Homo (c. 1605–1609) is a painting attributed to Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio.It depicts the ecce homo.The artwork was brought from Italy to Spain and given to Evaristo Pérez de Castro, who kept it in his family's collection.
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 ...
The Prado Annunciation is an altarpiece painted by the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico, in the 1420s. It is one of his best-known works. Originally destined for the convent of the observant Dominicans of Fiesole, the painting is currently in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Madrid, Museo del Prado: 110 × 91 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1599: Narcissus: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini: 110 × 92 cm Oil on canvas: Disputed c. 1600: Boy Bitten by a Lizard: Florence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi: 65.8 × 52.3 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1600: John the Baptist: Basel, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung: 102.5 × 83 cm ...
The painting became part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, in 1819. [1] [2] Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan has been cited as one of the most important works from Velázquez's first trip to Italy [3] and "one of his most successful compositions with regard to the unified, natural interaction of the figures." [4]
Museo del Prado, Madrid The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group , after San Ildefonso in Segovia , Spain , the location of the palace of La Granja at which it was kept until 1839) is an ancient Roman sculptural group of the 1st century AD, now in the Museo del Prado , Madrid .