A Guide-Book to the Prado Museum

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THE PRESENT GUIDE-BOOK
is designed to meet the need of English speaking art-lovers, and to help them to appreciate this unrivalled collection of paintings. A few critical suggestions have been added where it was felt that they would assit the visitor to a better under-standing.
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WITH THIS BOOK IN HAND
visitors may go through the Prado Art Gallery beginning on the first floor and following the recommendations which we have made picture by picture. There is alio an index of painters at the end of the book, showing the Gallery in which the works of any particular artist are to be found.
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THERE ARE ALSO EDITIONS OF THIS GUIDE-BOOK IN SPANISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN
THE PRADO PICTURE GALLERY
is undoubtedly the best in Spain and one of the finest in the world. It contains not only an unequalled collection of Spanish Masters, but also some of the best examples of the Dutch, French, German and Italian schools of painting as well as sculpture, gold and silver smith's work, designs,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE PRESENT GUIDE-BOOK
is designed to meet the need of English speaking art-lovers, and to help them to appreciate this unrivalled collection of paintings. A few critical suggestions have been added where it was felt that they would assit the visitor to a better under-standing.
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WITH THIS BOOK IN HAND
visitors may go through the Prado Art Gallery beginning on the first floor and following the recommendations which we have made picture by picture. There is alio an index of painters at the end of the book, showing the Gallery in which the works of any particular artist are to be found.
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THERE ARE ALSO EDITIONS OF THIS GUIDE-BOOK IN SPANISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN
THE PRADO PICTURE GALLERY
is undoubtedly the best in Spain and one of the finest in the world. It contains not only an unequalled collection of Spanish Masters, but also some of the best examples of the Dutch, French, German and Italian schools of painting as well as sculpture, gold and silver smith's work, designs, furniture, tapestry and ceramics.
The Prado is situated in the centre of Madrid, and was opened in 1819. It is a three-floor building, containing 115 galleries in which there are no less than 2.000 pictures. Among them are the finest works of Velázquez, Goya, El Greco, Ribera, Murillo, Zurbarán, Ribalta, Berruguete, Alonso Cano, Sánchez Coe-llo, Morales, luán de luanes, Valdés Leal, Claudio Coello, Maino, Yánez, Pereda, Rizi, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Raphael, Fra Angélico, Botticelli, Man-tegna, Bellini, Palma, Tiépolo, Correg-gio, Sarto, Bassano, Reni, Piombo, Guercino, Sassoferrato, Rubens, Van Dyck, lordaens, Van der Weyden, Memling, Metsys, Gerard David, Brueghel (the Elder), Patinir, Bosch, Dürer, Moro, Rembrandt, Poussin, Watteau, Reynolds, Romney, Gainsborough, and many other famous painters.
THERE ARE ALSO EDITIONS OF THIS GUIDE-BOOK IN SPANISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN
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