The+Prado+Museum

This page has been created by María González and Patricia Izquierdo. toc = Video = = = Created by Sofía Díaz media type="custom" key="5774107" = The Prado Museum = = = The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It has one of the best collections of European art, from the 12th century to the 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection. It is a museum of paintings and sculpture but it also contains important collections of more than 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals and 2,000 decorative objects and works of art. Sculpture is represented by more than 700 works. The painting collection had about 7,800 paintings, of which only about 900 are at public exhibition, because of the museum's lack of space. El Prado is one of the most visited places in Madrid, and it is considered to be among the greatest museums of art in the world.

The Museo del Prado is one of the buildings constructed during the reign of Charles III. To present the Museum del prado, Charles III called on one of its favorite architects, Juan de Villanueva, author also of the nearby Botanical Garden and the City Hall of Madrid. Work on the building stopped at the conclusion of Charles III's reign and throughout the Peninsular war and was only initiated again during the reign of Charles III's grandson, Ferdinard VII. The structure was used as headquarters for the cavarly and a gunpowder-store for the Napoleonic troops during the War of Independence.

Some of the Prado's beautiful works are :

Las Meninas by Velázquez

La Anunciacion by Fray Angelico

La Maja Vestida by [|Goya]

The most famous and important painters of the museum El Prado are:

=__Francisco de Goya__= Francisco de Goya was a Spanish romantic painter. He was born in Aragón, Spain in 1476. In the year 1771 Goya moved to Rome where he won his second prize. He married in 1773, later in 1789 he became a painter of royalty. In 1789 he became court painter, then in 1799 he was the First Court Painter and paint the Queen , the king, the royal family and some nobles. After having cholera and a high fever in 1792 he went left deaf. Napoleon Bonaparte's brother received Goya as a royal painter. His wife died in 1812. He left Spain in 1824 and went to Paris, but he returned in 1826. Two years later he went to Bordeaux again and died there with the age of 82 years .Some of his works were : The Nude Maja and The Clothed Maja, he paint the same woman nude and clothed in the same position. During 1793-1794 Goya paint set of 11 pictures painted on tin. He also paint pictures called Caprichos in 1799, the Black Paintings and Diseases of war: he painted these pictures in his house. These, were very dark paintings.

=Diego Velázquez= Diego Velázquez was born in Cuéllar, Segovia in the year 1465. He fought in Naples before moving to Seville. There he met Bartolomeo Colombus who was the younger brother of Cristopher Columbus. He went on the second expedition of Christopher Colombus in 1493.

=Pablo Ruíz Picasso=

Picasso was born in Málaga, the 25 of october in the year 1881.He was a Spanish painter and was one of the most famous during the XX century. He lived in Barcelona,Madrid and later in Paris and during this time he start his Blue Period.In Paris he also did the Pink Period and finally one of the most important period was Cubism. Guernica is her best painting and is very know.H e painted: Los Ballets Rusos,Guernica,he draws the dove of the peace and more paintings.... He dies the 8 of April in France, with the age of 91 years.