El Museo del Prado is celebrating this 2019 its 200 years of history. Today I select 7 books on one of the best art galleries in the world along with the French Louvre or the Russian Hermitage. They are themed around him and aimed at all audiences. Without a doubt, you will want to go for a walk to see it on these days off.
The Prado Museum
El Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture, which in 1868 was renamed National Museum of Painting and Sculpture and then Prado Museum, opened its doors to the public on November 19th 1819 with 311 paintings from the Royal Collection. In other words, a private collection that was originally for the enjoyment of a privileged few is possibly today the main cultural institution the country.
The Prado Museum - Biography of the building - Paco Monleón Gavilanes
For the most interested in form rather than content from the museum. This is a profusely edit illustrated with photographs, engravings and sketches in color. And it tells the history of the building from its creation to the extension made by the architect Rafael Moneo in 2007.
Small history of the Prado Museum - VV. AA.
A walk of 16 pages for the little ones full of Artwork full color of Pilarin Bayés. The accompanying story explains the evolution of the museum both on an architectural and artistic level. It also lists the important works of art that have been incorporated.
Three hours in the Prado Museum - Eugenio d'Ors
A title already qualified as classic published in 1922. Considered a critic of Prado art, it is actually a guide destined to concentrate, even if only in three hours, a journey where taste reigns of the visitor, not that he is an art connoisseur.
The miracle of the Prado - José Calvo Poyato
Egabrense by birth, Calvo Poyato studied Philosophy and Letters at the University of Granada, where he received a doctorate in History. It is professor of secondary education, and has combined teaching with research. It is also author of several historical novels as Calderón's manuscript, Blood in the street of the Turco, The Great Captain o The King's Spy.
In this title Poyato narrates what the outbreak of the civil war for the historical and artistic heritage of the country. And it focuses on the survival of the most important paintings in the Prado Museum, that were removed for months and exposed to risks that could have led to irreparable losses.
The myths of the Prado Museum - Miguel Ángel Elvira Barba and Marta Carrasco Ferrer
Collaborating with the Prado, this book studies its most important works of mythological content. Its images made by Prado photographers, of outstanding quality and accompanied by a description. Also included are beautiful recorded, carefully selected by the authors. In addition, as a complement, the reader has the ancient texts that served as inspiration for these works.
The Prado family - Juan Eslava Galán
There are very few authors who tell history like Eslava Galán and their titles on different periods are countless. This is a commemorative book precisely of this bicentennial from the Prado Museum, which does not lack that unmistakable, pleasant and rigorous style of the author.
In this case it is a journey through a family album, that of royal families and other illustrious characters as painters, lovers, commoners ... They all parade in a truffled description of episodes that they starred in, anecdotes fun and secrets that hide behind the paintings.
The enigma in the Prado - Geronimo Stilton
For readers From 7 years. Could not miss the most famous mouse of current children's and youth literature to unravel a mystery in the Prado. Was his first adventure set in Spain. They even made a new boom in musicals last year.
The question is that someone has stolen a very famous painting from the Prado. But, by a strange coincidence, Gerónimo is precisely in Madrid with his friend the nosy detective. So there will be investigate the case and discover the culprit.