The Prado Museum is known as the largest art gallery in the world. There are also sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of art, but it is undoubtedly its large collection of paintings, which gave it world fame. It houses more than 8,600 paintings, of which they are less than 2,000 to because of lack of space available. Many museums around the world have less artistic riches in their halls than the Prado Museum in memory.
Today's art gallery comes from the royal collections of the old Trinidad Museum, as well as acquisitions, donations and bequests.
His story began during the reign of Charles III as he tried to create a single collection of art under one roof. But it was not until the reign of Ferdinand VII, when the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture was created to 19 November 1819th The kings of death caused inheritance problems and threatened the unity of the collection, but with the disappearance of the monarchy in Spain, the museum was nationalized and became known as the Prado Museum.
From then on that date, the art survived several challenges and were transferred several times during the Spanish civil war, ending up in the Swiss city of Geneva and back to Madrid during the Second World War.
The building Villa Nueva, where the majority of the works are housed, and the Cason del Buen Retiro: Today his treasures in two adjacent buildings on display.
source:http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/prado.htm
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