The Prado is a huge museum with acres of art. They don't allow pictures inside the museum so I only have a few pictures that I was able to take before my scolding. We walked down to the museum and then continued to the El Retrio Park for our picnic lunch. We had a shrimp salad that we made the evening previous. Then we spent a few hours in the museum dodging the larger tours. There were entire halls devoted to the Spanish artists such ad Goya and Velazquez. Many Dutch masters were on display as well as including Rubens, Rembrandt, the Brueghels. One painting in particular was a collaboration, Rubens painted the portraits and Brueghels painted the landscape. Another interesting pairing was a Adam and Eve by Titian and a copy of that same painting by Rubens. It was great seeing.so many incredible pieces of art. I took notes of the pieces that caught our eyes
Tip Pepe is a guitar wielding bottle of Sherry
A new metro station has this intersection all torn up
So many flowers
It is beautiful
A Theater
Random Grafitti
An odd series of letters on a piece of concrete art
Some official buildings dealing with the courts
Franz List did something here
Neptune, god of the seas
Have umbrella, will travel
Grand Hotel indeed
We thought that this may be an entrance to the Prado Museum as the sign at the top might indicate but it was not
Picnic lunch
Shrimp salad wraps
We returned to Retrio Park for our picnic
Hail to the Queen
I am in the museum and have not been warned about photos yet
An entire hall of royal statues
I liked the dog in the foreground
A group of philosophers
This is made of polished stone
All carefully cut and inlayed
Some of the promotional materials outside
A picture of a postcard in the gift shop
More shots from the outside posters. I wanted some pictures...
I discovered that I could find the art on the Prado website, this is called "Abundance"
Adam and Eve by Titian
Adam and Eve by Rafael, the fig leaves are substantially smaller
"Concert of the Birds" is a funny absurdist painting
A different set of birds in another "Concert of Birds"
Hyper-realism art from the 1611 by Clara Peeters!
Painted with dignity "El Primo"
The head of a horse from a Greek Sculture
This is some good ham
A young Margaret from Austria
"The Monkey Sculptor" is funny
There was an alcove stuffed with incredible art glass
And the special cases that they were stored in
The Church on the hill above the museum
So many spires
Spring has sprung as evidenced by the lawn
Serious doors
