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PradoSpanish art gallery containing the national collection of pictures. The building was designed as a natural history museum and begun in 1785; it became an art gallery in 1818 under Ferdinand VII. It comprises many great works accumulated over three centuries by the monarchs Charles V, Philip II, and Philip IV and by the religious houses of Spain. It ranks as one of the world's greatest art collections and it is unquestionably the greatest collection of Spanish masters, Velázquez (over 60 works), El Greco, Zurbarán, Ribera, Murillo, and Goya being superbly represented. The Spanish connection with the Netherlands helps to account for the especial richness of the Flemish School. It contains the greatest group of works by Bosch, whose strange genius was favoured by Philip II, some outstanding works by Pieter Brueghel, and over 60 works by Rubens. It also has a fine Adoration of the Magi by Memlinc, and Van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross. The attachment of the Hapsburgs to Venetian art is evidenced by the wealth of paintings by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. There are also paintings by Raphael, Rembrandt, Poussin, Claude, Dürer, Holbein and Mor.
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She had taken a little furnished house on the Prado for the good of the cause - POR EL REY He himself appears to have had some doubt about it, at a given moment, as they were driving to the Prado. |
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