Download or read book Paintings of the Prado written by J. Rogelio Buendía and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical overview of the Prado museum and its collections.

Download or read book The Prado written by Javier Portús Pérez and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty renowned works from one of the most impressive and significant museums of the world.

Download or read book The Prado Masterpieces written by Museo Nacional del Prado and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and is considered one the greatest museums of art in the world. The numerous works by Francisco de Goya, the single most extensively represented artist, as well as by Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens and Hieronymus Bosch are some of the highlights of the collection. Comprehensively showcasing the permanent collection of the Prado, this magnificent book is the first of its kind to be published by the Prado Museum, covering the collection from Ancient Sculpture to the 19th century. The book is arranged chronologically by the date of the artworks featured, creating a rich dialogue between artists from different schools working in the same period. There are sections looking in depth at specific painters (Velazquez, Titian, Greco and Bosch), and at the themes of still life, portraits and religious paintings. The Prado Masterpieces can be read as a complete history of art, as illustrated by the careful selection of highlights from the Prado's Collection.

Download or read book The Prado Art Guide written by Carlos Javier Taranilla de la Varga and published by ArgoNowta. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most wonderful and clear art guide to explore and learn all the fundamentals of the greatest works, artists, schools of art and styles in the Prado Museum. Discover the Prado, one of the premier art galleries in the world. Explore and appreciate the greatest masterpieces and the artists who created them: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Botticelli, Raphael, the Venetians, Rubens, Rembrandt, Lorraine, Poussin, 19th century Spanish painting plus the best sculptural and decorative works it treasures in its collections. Learn its history and transformation from picture gallery to global treasured museum, which houses one of the very best collections of European art in the world including the most complete collection of Spanish paintings.

Download or read book The Master of the Prado written by Javier Sierra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Javier Sierra embarks on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind some of the greatest paintings in the world--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts of artwork by Raphael, Boticelli, and other masters"--

Download or read book The Prado Museum written by Museo del Prado and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid is among the most prestigious in the world. Its riches include paintings that once decorated the palaces of kings and emperors and by the most renowned names in the history of Western art -- Botticelli, Bosch, Bruegel, Tintoretto, Titian, El Greco, Velazquez, Rubens, Goya, and scores of other artists. This handsome volume, prepared in cooperation with the Prado, presents more than 800 of the museum's magnificent paintings.Eminent art historians describe the works themselves and their social, cultural, and political contexts, and discuss the collection as a whole, which reflects the changing tastes and styles of the past 500 years. The vivid colorplates, made from specially taken photographs, are fully integrated with the text.

Download or read book The Art of the Prado written by Charles S. Ricketts and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A survey with the contents of the gallery together with detailed critisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them"--T.p.

Download or read book Great Paintings from the Prado Museum written by Museo del Prado and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A catalogue of the paintings in the Museo del Prado at Madrid written by Museo del Prado and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasures of the Prado written by Museo del Prado and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director of the Museo del Prado offers a small-scale walking tour highlighting the best of the Prado's magnificent collections of European paintings, sculptures, and objects d'art. 250 full-color illus.

Download or read book The Prado Museum written by Museo del Prado and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Renowned as the largest art gallery in the world, the Prado houses sculptures, drawings, coins, and other works of art - but it is its incomparable collection of paintings which had drawn fame worldwide. This third edition of The Prado Museum introduces the latest of the museum's acquisitions."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Dutch Paintings at the Prado Museum written by Museo del Prado and published by T.F. Editores, S.L.C.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalogue raisonne "Dutch Painting at the Prado", published by the Museo del Prado, reflects the need to catalog a collection so far not well appreciated. It is the culmination of nearly six years of research work conducted by Teresa Posada Kubissa, curator of Area of Flemish Painting and Northern School. She is also author of the essay that precedes the catalog, which traces a journey through the origins of the collection and its evolution in the Prado. It also includes 100 works faithfully represented and widely discussed, biographies and details of the signatures of the artists and an index of names. The introductory essay and catalog cards are translated into English.

Download or read book Prado Museum written by Luis Miranda Podadera and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prado written by Santiago Alcolea i Blanch and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1991 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long known as "the museum-lover's museum", the Prado Museum in Madrid contains artworks by the best, and the best-known painters of the 12th through the 20th centuries. This collection features the jewels of the Prado, gathered by the kings and queens of Spain, and shown in all their splendor. Scores of European masters including Rubens, Bosch, Raphael--and of course, the works of the Spanish school, El Greco, Velaquez, Goya--are represented. Over 320 illustrations, 275 in full color.

Download or read book The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Kathryn Calley Galitz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.

Download or read book Bosch written by María Pilar Silva Maroto and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the work of Jheronimus Bosch, published to coincide with the 5th centenary of the artist's death and in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo del Prado

Download or read book The Prado written by Museo del Prado and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains beautiful color reproductions of fine paintings that hang in The Prado museum in Madrid, Spain. Each picture has the name of the painter, date of the work, title and dimensions of the painting."--Amazon