20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid: Quick Facts

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The neoclassical facade of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, with the Diego Velazquez statue in front and the Spanish flag flying above the entrance.

Francisco Ribalta: Christ Embracing St. Bernard

Painting The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velazquez shows two men at the center exchanging a key, surrounded by soldiers with spears and flags, with a distant battle scene in the background.

Diego Velázquez: Las meninas

Francisco Goya: The Naked Maja

Francisco Goya: The Family of Carlos IV

Francisco Goya: The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, or “The Executions”

Rogier van der Weyden: Descent from the Cross

Triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, showing three panels with fantastical scenes of paradise, earthly pleasures, and hell, filled with figures, animals, and surreal imagery.

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