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...May to September; further information here ‘Arte y Transformaciones Sociales en España: 1885-1910’ (Art and Social Transformation in Spain: 1885—1910), Prado The Prado’s summer exhibition explores Spain...
...Meanwhile, María Susana Del Prado, who moved from Argentina in 2020, says Madrid isn’t just for the young....
...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...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....
...Best yet, it’s all available online and can be shipped internationally. shop.zeitzmocaa.museum Rima Suqi Prado Museum, Madrid The Prado’s main shop, Tienda Prado, isn’t exactly charming in itself, possessing...
...“I also saw a very similar red in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Each of the rooms has a colour theme, but very loosely,” explains James....
...“We don’t have a lack of nurses because of Covid,” said María José García, a senior official in Spain’s nurses union....
...In “María on the Beach at Biarritz, or Backlight, Biarritz”, Sorolla uses the whitest of flowing summer frocks as counterpoint to myriad shades of reflections on the sea....
...The new museum stands on a side street within a few minutes’ taxi ride of one of the planet’s greatest concentrations of top-flight, world-class art: the Paseo del Prado in Madrid....
...Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told me he considers the hub to be Barça’s “most important” project. “The sportsmen of the future will perform much better than the ones now,” he says....
...Returning from the Louvre and the Prado, these are outstanding highlights....
...The Monasterio de Santa Maria de Sijena, tucked away among fields of corn and alfalfa in Spain’s northern Aragón region, is famed for a series of elaborate frescoes, dating from the 12th century....
...There are outstanding loans: 10 masterpieces from the Prado, and the last-minute arrival of the stellar pair “Charles IV in Hunting Dress” and “María Luisa wearing a Mantilla” in the gilt wood frames in...
...Others across the city include Casa Tres Patios, an artists’ residence and workspace in Prado, and Plecto, a white cube in leafy Conquistadores....
...The collaboration between Google Earth and Madrid’s Prado Museum, enabling highly detailed scrutiny of the gallery’s masterpieces, is as much a technological revelation as an artistic one....
...While de Neve could make only minor additions to the cathedral, he could be more radical in Santa Maria la Blanca....
...And the Prado. MP I also like to walk and go to the botanic garden, which is close to the Prado. And then you go to eat well, and it is the perfect day....
...“Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” focuses on the artist’s 18-year career as a court painter to Ludovico Maria Sforza, the duke of Milan, during the 1480s and 1490s....
...In recent years, a cycle of exhibitions – including a 2010 retrospective at the Prado in Madrid – has raised his profile considerably....
...Paris has the Louvre, Madrid has the Prado and Florence has the Uffizi. And Guimarães? Well, Guimarães has a corridor made of cardboard boxes in a room above the city’s police station....
...“Some Nobel announcements are perplexing,” said Spanish novelist Javier Marías, like Vargas Llosa a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. “But no one will argue with this one. Or almost no one.”...
...A Goya royal portrait in a private collection is exceptional; most were absorbed into the Prado, as were those of Velázquez, who is not represented here....
...Also on display is one of the fruits of these labours, “Sketch for Hadleigh Castle”, painted when Constable was grief-stricken from the loss of his wife Maria....
...To see that, you only need to compare our experience with that of the United States … There were never segregation laws here after emancipation,” argues Professor Maria Coelho Prado, a historian at the University...
...Joaquín Sorolla, the sometimes audacious Spanish impressionist whose work is on show now at Madrid’s Prado museum, portrayed his country for the New York headquarters of the Hispanic Society of America nearly...
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