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...To be able to walk in 15 minutes from the Thyssen museum to the Reina Sofia, a route that also passes the Prado and CaixaForum, is a real privilege....
...When he arrived at the Prado, he couldn’t find “The Calling of St Matthew” until the museum director sent him on a guided expedition through a series of closed and dilapidated rooms....
...Covered with gilt and dimly lit with candles . . . powerful or banal/Monuments of riches or repression . . . the Escorial/Cold for ever within like the heart of Philip . . . and in the Prado half/Wit princes...
...If I could take a few from the Prado, I would. The gadget I couldn’t do without is my Apple Watch, which I use to track my sleep....
...As I don’t feel up to consuming an entire bottle of Licinia alone, Caballero instead suggests pairing quail breast on toast with a 2020 Prados Colección Garnacha from Campo de Borja....
...(And outside the realm of finance, Prado, whose father was a close confidante of former Spanish king Juan Carlos, can be found breeding cattle for bullfights at Torrealta, a prestigious ranch....
...The club is so close to the heart of the ruling elite that the former King Juan Carlos used to begin meetings with ministers by discussing its latest results....
...If none of this seems quite enough to justify a prize for architecture, perhaps the doors of Madrid’s Prado might convince....
...Prado Museum, Paseo del Prado, 28014 (museodelprado.es). Restaurante Viridiana, Calle Juan de Mena 14, 28014 (restauranteviridiana.com)....
...Although the great museums are Madrid’s prime attraction — especially the eternal Prado, which celebrates its 200th anniversary next year — new art-cathedrals are swelling their ranks....
...Museo del Prado, Calle Ruiz de Alarcón 23, 28014 (museodelprado.es)....
...The pre-Christmas arrival from the Prado of Juan Bautista Maino’s 10ft altarpieces “The Adoration of the Shepherds” and “The Adoration of the Kings” brings to London’s National Gallery its most majestic,...
...Claudia Claviño, 33, the producer of the 2012 surprise hit Juan of the Dead, a darkly comic Havana-based zombie flick, is bolder in her assessment of the state of Cuban film-making....
...Others across the city include Casa Tres Patios, an artists’ residence and workspace in Prado, and Plecto, a white cube in leafy Conquistadores....
...Many of los velazqueños were convincing, skilful painters: Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo and Juan Carreño de Miranda, in particular, depicted Philip’s widow and their youngest, crippled, imbecile son Charles...
...Rubens and His Legacy, Royal Academy, London Only two major works by the Flemish baroque master here — but both spectacular enough to justify a visit: “The Garden of Love”, the Prado’s voluptuous vision...
...Juan Jose Prado Gareth: The global economy values and requires experience and skills as well as technical knowledge....
...In the Prado he communes with Velasquez’s buffoon Juan the Pumpkin turning the wide corridors, full of living patrons and dead subjects into a teeming Rambla; a passage on Arundhati Roy offers a clear-eyed...
...Du Greco à Dalí, the Spanish paintings amassed since the 1990s by Mexican industrialist Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, showing for the first time in Europe at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, is a marvellous...
...Outstanding works by Juan Gris, Joaquín Sunyer and Joan Miró reveal the museum’s strength in Spanish artists....
...Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz once left the Prado after viewing “Las Meninas” with the remark: “Now we go to have a real Spanish lunch, but they stay: and that is the terror of Spanish painting!”...
...Miguel Zugaza, director of the Prado museum in Madrid, was quoted as calling the ceiling a very important work of art for the 21st century and “the best possible projection of Spanish modernity”....
...Juan Pantoja de la Cruz’s 1605 version of Charles is, in fact, Titian’s, right down to the Emperor’s amiable, crooked smile....
...The gallery has assembled a rich array of great paintings – 35 by Picasso, 21 by Goya – plus 15 loans from the Prado alone....
...Ortega y Gasset’s comment on Velazquez echoes from every canvas in the Prado’s exceptional new exhibition, The Spanish Portrait....
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