Prado Museum: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Museo del Prado • Royal Museum of Painting • National Museum of the Prado
Date	1819 - present
Areas Of Involvement	20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid

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Visitors walk through a spacious gallery in the Prado Museum, Madrid, with large framed paintings displayed on ornate yellow walls and a polished marble floor.

Rafael Moneo: Prado Museum addition

Diego Velázquez: Las meninas

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.

Prado Museum, Madrid.

Titian: Sisyphus

Hiëronymus Bosch: Table of the Seven Deadly Sins

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