The Prado Museum in Madrid is considered one of the most famous art museums in Europe, along with the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London. Every year the museum is visited by 2 million tourists. The building itself is a museum, built in 1785, is an outstanding monument of architecture. Initially called the Royal Museum of the Prado was founded by the wife of Fernando VII Braganskoy Isabella in 1819. The collection includes 8,600 paintings, only available to the public about 2000 works. Originally conceived as a museum exhibition of works by Spanish artists.

The exposition has become a collection of paintings owned by Queen Isabella Braganskoy, after her death, almost all the Spanish monarchs have made in meeting its share, and now Prado has a collection of Italian, Flemish, German, Netherlands and French masters XV-XIII centuries. Spanish school in the Prado presented: Berruguete, Murillo and El Greco. Of particular note is Diego Velázquez. In the Prado is the most complete collection of his paintings: “Surrender of Breda”, “Las Meninas”, “spinner”, portraits of the royal jesters and the king Philip IV, surrounded by his family. Most fully exhibited in the Prado and the work of Francisco Goya, who, like Velazquez, court painter was the official sign.
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