A Few Masterpieces & some Living Statues
If I was to name one “not be missed place” on a visit to Madrid, I would have no hesitation in selecting the “Prado National Museum”. The Prado Museum is renowned as being the largest art gallery in the world housing more than 8,600 paintings. But for space limitation they exhibits less than 2,000 paintings but for me I was very lucky as there were a collection of Picasso on display as part of an exchange program. In addition to painting s, it also exhibits sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of arts. The rich life story of El Prado started during the reign of Charles III, when he had the vision to create a single art collection. But it was on 19th November 1819, during the reign of Fernando VII, the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture was created. With the abolition of monarchy in Spain the museum became a national property and came to be known as the Prado National Museum. The works of art have survived several challenges since the inception and were transferred...