The objective of the visit will be to give a global vision of the institution with a selection of the key works of each of the pictorial schools represented: the Spanish (El Greco, Velázquez, Goya) the flamenco (Van del Weyden, El Bosco, Rubens ) Italian (Titian, Tintoretto) German (Dürer) or English (Reynolds) With explanations that will be approached both from the aesthetic point of view and from the historical context that determined its realization.
Did you know ...
-The name "meadow" comes because in the 18th century the place where the museum is located was occupied by a meadow where the elite used to walk. Hence the current name "Paseo del Prado"
-In the museum there is a copy of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. According to an X-ray carried out by the museum, it was made at the same time as the original since it has the same errors that Leonardo later erased ..
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