Legendary Paintings In The Prado Museum
Europe is ideal to take vacations and Spain perfect to begin your exploration in the old continent. The Prado Museum is well known as being the largest art gallery in the globe. The Prado also exhibits Paintings, sculptures, drawings, and other kind of art expressions of different artists. Approximately, this museum houses more than 8,600 valuable Paintings.
Spain is the unique country in Europe where people speak Spanish, take your precautions. The Prado Museum was originally built in the 18th century as a gallery to house the private art compilation of the Spanish Royal family. Nevertheless, the museum was opened to the public in 1868 and today receives more than 1 million visitors per year.
If you visit The Prado Museum, you will appreciate famous Paintings like Las Meninas (by Diego Velazquez), The Third of May (by Francisco Goya), The Garden of Earthly Delights (by Hieronymus Bosch), The Annunciation (by Fra Angelico), The Three Graces (by Peter Paul Rubens) and Guernica (by Pablo Picasso). Other masterpieces of artists such as El Greco, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, and Durer are part of The Prado Museum’s collection.
The Prado Museum is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays: 9am-7pm, and Sundays, holidays, 24th and 31st December: 9am-2pm. Just Mondays are closed; take your precaution to avoid any surprise. The list of Spanish museums is long; however, these are the most visited by local and foreign visitors: Van Gogh Museum, Salvador Dali Museum, House Museum Cervantes, House Museum Greco, Basque Museum and National Museum of Anthropology.
Don’t miss the chance to go to Spain and carry a good camera for exploring its most beautiful cities.
The history of art has developed diverse Paintings styles through years. If you want to learn more about this them, you should read Linda Mc Cain Smith’s articles. She is an international freelance writer that travels the world. Explore this interesting topic and begin your own art collection with Oil Paintings.
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