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works by Francisco Goya, the single most extensively
WORLD-CLASS ART PRADO MUSEUM Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez,
represented artist, as well as by Hieronymus Bosch, El

are some of the highlights of the collection.
The collection currently comprises around 8200 drawings,
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7600 paintings, 4800 prints, and 1000 sculptures,
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documents. As of 2012, the museum displayed about
The Bicentenary of the Museo del Prado in addition to many other works of art and historic
1300 works in the main buildings, while around 3100
works were on temporary loan to various museums and
The Museo del Prado opened to the public on 19 official institutions.
November 1819 as a Royal Museum of Painting and The Prado is home to works by some of the Spanish
Sculpture. In 2019, we celebrate our Bicentenary a Golden Age leading painters including Ribera, Zurbarán,
commemoration that will reveal the path covered since Murillo, and the great Velázquez, whose masterpieces
1819 until today. On this special occasion, we wish to Las Meninas and The Seamstresses hang here. In the
reflect on the future and the forthcoming challenges for Goya galleries you’ll find an array of works by the great
this and the other great Museums of ancient painting: artist, from the tapestry cartoons he made for the Royal
the need to attract social groups that traditionally are Tapestry Factory to the Black Paintings he painted on the
not attracted by the collections, to encourage gender walls of his house La Quinta del Sordo (Deaf-Man’s Villa).
and minority research studies or the challenges caused The rooms devoted to 19th-century art feature pieces
by overcrowding. The Prado Museum is one of the most by Fortuny, Federico, Raimundo Madrazo and Joaquín
visited sites in the world, and it is considered one of Sorolla, the Valencian artist whose wonderful house-
the greatest art museums in the world. The numerous museum is also found in the city.

The Museo del Prado, Goya Galleries, Majas ©Museo Nacional del Prado

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