Hints and tips:
...It was rich, enough so to feel satiated but by no means too full to stroll down the nearby Paseo del Prado, the city’s avenue of art....
...The show opened at the National Gallery in London last year, closed three days later, reopened, then shut again before moving on to the Prado....
...Earl of East London, 5A Gransden Avenue, London E8 (earlofeastlondon.com)....
...The only comparable table was commissioned for Philip II of Spain in 1587, and is now in the Prado....
...To see the rest, we just need to bite the bullet and head to the Louvre, the Prado and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna....
...Another superfine work of 1640 is Van Dyck’s portrait of his new wife, Mary Ruthven, lent by the Prado; it is done with a gently sexual, and richly affectionate, handful of glamour....
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