Within its "Invited Work" programme, the Museo del Prado is presenting this masterpiece by Pablo Picasso entitled Acrobat with a Ball. It was painted in 1905 and belongs to the...
The carved wooden ceiling provides the key note in this new gallery devoted to the Várez Fisa donation. It covers the space and creates a light that gives a distinctive appearance to the gallery and...
The aim of this small exhibition is to present the public and academic community with the Saint John the Baptist that you see behind me. This painting belongs to the Museo del Prado but for one...
Giandomenico Tiepolo belonged to a family of Venetian artists. His highly defined artistic personality was very notably influenced by the equally defined but different personality of his father, with...

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For 250 years museums like Prado or Hermitage or Louvre or Uffizzi or National Gallery they have been collecting, organizing and then giving back masterworks to the communities. But what I have always...

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Rafael Moneo called me while he was working on the Museum’s extension and was thinking about how to resolve the door. As he had done in other places he wanted to design a door and we had a very...
The exhibition Passion for Renoir. The Collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, on display at the Museo del Prado, is the first monographic exhibition to be devoted to the artist...
The exhibition "Japanese Prints in the Museo del Prado" presents a small selection of these works from our collection, which entered the Museum from the Museo de Arte Moderno in...
Jean Siméon Chardin looked for beauty in everyday things. From the 1730s onwards he focused on figure painting, which was considered superior to still-life within the hierarchy of pictorial genres....
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