Национальный музей Прадо

National Prado Museum Done by: Vadim Shorin

The National Prado Museum is the most famous art museum of painting and sculpture in Spain. The idea of ​​creating a museum belongs to King Charles III, who commissioned the architect Juan de Villanueva to develop a project for the creation of the Museum of Natural Sciences.

-By 1811, the construction of the building was almost completed, but the war with France destroyed the original plan. And only in 1819, Queen Maria Isabella of Braganza, wife of King Fernando VII, founded an art gallery in an empty building on Paseo del Prado. -It is 1819 that is considered the founding date of the Prado Art Museum, although its building was in an unfinished state until 1830. But the collections collected in the museum are much older than the museum itself. Hieronymus Bosch. Carriage of hay

Today, the collection of the Prado Museum includes a large number of masterpieces of various pictorial genres. This museum rightfully belongs to the number of symbols of Spain, along with the French Louvre, the Moscow Kremlin or the Egyptian pyramids in Giza. Diego Velazquez. Meninas - the most famous painting of the Prado Museum

Francisco de Goya. Family of Charles IV. Currently, the Prado has the richest exposition of Spanish painters. It is based on the works of three great masters: -El Greco -Velazquez -Goya.

I really liked the Prado as it is a wonderful museum with paintings by great Spanish, and not only, artists. Velazquez's meninas are top notch as always!