It was justified in 1819 directed by Miguel Zugaza.
The Prado museum is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, it also contains important collections of other types of works. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and it is considered to be among the greatest museums of art. The collection has around 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints and 8,200 drawings.
We can find works of art by El Bosco, Tiziano, El Greco, Murillo, Rubens, Goya o Velázquez. In its rooms you can see from the romantic murals dating from the twelfth to paintings created by Francisco de Goya well into the nineteenth century. In these rooms, spread over the ground floor, the first and the second, you can find paintings by El Greco, as the gentleman by the hand to the chest or the adoration of the shepherds.
The latest additions to the Prado Museum in Madrid The Museum has recovered three paintings of religious themes important to enrich the permanent collection funds. The Crucifixion, a masterpiece of HispanoFlemish Renaissance and its author, John of Flanders,
The
Crucifixion
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Juan
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The public can also enjoy the return of one of the most notable compositions of El Greco, The Adoration of the Shepherds, which was exhibited from June 2004 through having to go through a thorough restoration. The Adoration of the Shepherds by El Greco: