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Museo Nacional del Prado.
The Prado’s sculpture collection numbers more than 900 works, in addition to around 200 fragments. Most are classical, Renaissance and Baroque sculptures and works from the 18th and 19th centuries, but the Museum also possesses some Oriental and Medieval pieces.
The first group derives from the royal collection and principally comprises Greco-Roman sculptures in addition to Renaissance bronzes by artists such as the Leoni, who executed sculpted portraits of the Spanish monarchs in the 16th century. With the importation of sculptures from Italy, the taste for the classical revived in 17th-century Spain. This was in fact one of the main reasons for Velázquez’s second trip to Italy, and during his stay in Rome he was involved in the selection of works on behalf of Philip IV. Particularly important were the acquisitions made in the 18th century by Philip V and his queen, Isabella Farnese, who purchased the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden, to which that of José Nicolás de Azara was later added.
With regard to more recent acquisitions, an important addition was the small but significant group of archaic Greek sculpture donated by Mario Zayas in 1944, an area not represented by a single work in the Spanish royal collection. Two sculptures of Epimetheus and Pandora by El Greco are also recent acquisitions for the collection.
All info on internet.
Shot taken outside the museum and looking into the ground floor where classical sculpture is (Villanueva building, Velazquez entrance). |
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Hi Maria!
Amazingly tasteful take on the Museo Nacional del Prado.
I love the tight crop on the three columns supporting the
museum so it allows you placement of vertical windows
symmetrically.
Very clean and pleasant for the eye!
Thank you,
Robi
Creative POV,Your creation on alternative looking of POV made a new idea to took the shot for me,Well sharpness and arrangement of asymmetric balance IN symmetric balance.Good work,TFS.
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