The document describes the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. It is Spain's national museum of art, founded in 1818 and opened in 1819. The collection derives from the royal collections of the Spanish kings over three centuries, making the Prado one of the richest and most discriminating art collections in Europe. It contains the world's greatest collection of Spanish painting, especially works by El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya. It also has superb collections of Bosch, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Rubens, and van Dyck, though the focus is not comprehensiveness but outstanding representations in certain fields.

2. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas (detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

3. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas (detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

4. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas (detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

5. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

6. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces

7. ANGELICO, Fra
The Annunciation
1430-32
Tempera on wood, 194 x 194 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

8. ANGELICO, Fra
The Annunciation (detail)
1430-32
Tempera on wood
Museo del Prado, Madrid

9. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights
c. 1500
Oil on panel, central panel: 220 x 195 cm,
wings: 220 x 97 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

10. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights
(detail)
c. 1500
Oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

11. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights
(detail)
c. 1500
Oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

12. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights
(detail)
c. 1500
Oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

13. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights
(detail)
c. 1500
Oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

14. DÜRER, Albrecht
Self-Portrait at 26
1498
Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

15. DÜRER, Albrecht
Self-Portrait at 26 (detail)
1498
Oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

16. DYCK, Sir Anthony van
Sir Endymion Porter and the Artist
1632-41
Oil on canvas, 110 x 114 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

17. GRECO, El
Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest
1583-85
Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

18. GRECO, El
Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest
(detail)
1583-85
Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

19. GRECO, El
Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest
(detail)
1583-85
Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

20. JUAN DE FLANDES
The Crucifixion
1509 - 1519
Oil on panel, 123 x 169 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

21. JUAN DE FLANDES
The Crucifixion (detail)
1509 - 1519
Oil on panel, 123 x 169 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

22. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Portrait of a Cardinal
1510-11
Oil on wood, 79 x 61 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

23. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Portrait of a Cardinal (detail)
1510-11
Oil on wood, 79 x 61 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

24. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Artemisia
1634
Oil on canvas, 142 x 152 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

25. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Artemisia (detail)
1634
Oil on canvas, 142 x 152 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

26. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Artemisia (detail)
1634
Oil on canvas, 142 x 152 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

27. RIBERA, Jusepe de
Jacob's Dream
1639
Oil on canvas, 179 x 233 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

28. RIBERA, Jusepe de
Jacob's Dream (detail)
1639
Oil on canvas, 179 x 233 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

29. RUBENS, Peter Paul
The Three Graces
1639
Oil on wood, 221 x 181 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

30. RUBENS, Peter Paul
The Three Graces
1639
Oil on wood, 221 x 181 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

31. TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista
The Immaculate Conception
1767-69
Oil on canvas, 279 x 152 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

32. TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista
The Immaculate Conception (detail)
1767-69
Oil on canvas, 279 x 152 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

33. TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista
The Immaculate Conception (detail)
1767-69
Oil on canvas, 279 x 152 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

34. TIZIANO Vecellio
Venus with Organist and Cupid
1548
Oil on canvas, 148 x 217 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

35. TIZIANO Vecellio
Venus with Organist and Cupid (detail)
1548
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

36. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Deposition
c. 1435
Oil on oak panel, 220 x 262 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

37. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Deposition (detail)
c. 1435
Oil on oak panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

38. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Deposition (detail)
c. 1435
Oil on oak panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

39. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Deposition (detail)
c. 1435
Oil on oak panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

40. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
The Clothed Maja (La Maja Vestida)
1800-03
Oil on canvas, 97 x 190 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

41. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
The Clothed Maja (La Maja Vestida)
(detail)
1800-03
Oil on canvas, 97 x 190 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

42. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
The Nude Maja (La Maja Desnuda)
1799-1800
Oil on canvas, 97 x 190 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

43. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
The Nude Maja (detail)
1799-1800
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

44. cast Museo del Prado, Madrid: Picture Gallery, The
Masterpieces
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The Nude Maja (detail)
1799-1800
Museo del Prado, Madrid

45. The Prado Museum is Spain's national museum of art in Madrid, founded in 1818 by
Ferdinand VII and opened to the public in 1819.
The building, one of the finest examples of Spanish Neoclassical architecture, had
been intended for a Museum of Natural Science but had never served that purpose.
The major part of the collection derives from the royal collections made in the
course of three centuries by the Habsburg and Bourbon kings of Spain, who were
some Museo del Prado of the most discriminating and lavish patrons in Europe.
The museum is remarkable less for comprehensiveness than for unequalled
representation in certain fields. Above all, it contains what is far and away the
world's greatest collection of Spanish painting, El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya,
being supremely well represented. It is among the richest of all museums in works
by Hieronymus Bosch and Titian, and has superb collections of Tintoretto,
Veronese, Rubens, and van Dyck.