Archive for April, 2016
Museo del Prado
The Prado is one of the world’s greatest art museums. It is a main reason to visit Madrid. It houses masterpieces by Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens and Hieronymus Bosch. A great thing about the Prado is that it is free to enter after 6:00p.m. Because it was just a few blocks from where we were staying, this meant we could visit several times.
There will be a long line forming around 5:30, but if you get there about 6:15 you almost waltz right in! Then you can see everything without paying the approximately $20 entrance fee they charge during the day. We didn’t find it excessively crowded when we went at night, but it was October, which is considered to be the shoulder season, transitioning from high to low.
The bad thing about the Prado is that they don’t allow photography. I know it is to protect the artwork because many people can’t figure out how to turn off their flash and millions of flashes at artwork does have a detrimental effect. But it still annoys me. So I did steal one shot…
This spectacular Sorolla masterpiece. And the guard in the next room heard my shutter release and came running after me. Ah…the excitement of being a criminal on the run! Ah to be yelled at in Spanish! A shrug and, “Lo siento…” and I am forgiven if in a disgusted voice.
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