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Art in Madrid: Guernica. 1936. Pablo Picasso © Sucesión Pablo Picasso. VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

The document discusses art museums in Madrid, Spain. It describes three major art museums located near each other along an Art Walk that showcase art from the Middle Ages to present day. It also mentions several other notable museums and historic royal sites around Madrid known for their collections of paintings, furniture, and artifacts showing civilizations that influenced the Iberian Peninsula.

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Art in Madrid: Guernica. 1936. Pablo Picasso © Sucesión Pablo Picasso. VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

The document discusses art museums in Madrid, Spain. It describes three major art museums located near each other along an Art Walk that showcase art from the Middle Ages to present day. It also mentions several other notable museums and historic royal sites around Madrid known for their collections of paintings, furniture, and artifacts showing civilizations that influenced the Iberian Peninsula.

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Guernica. 1936.

Pablo Picasso © Sucesión Pablo


Picasso. VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

Art in Madrid
In addition to being the city where Goya and Velázquez linked to the Spanish Crown which are now managed also several other museums in Madrid which are less
– both court painters to the Spanish monarchs – by Patrimonio Nacional, the National Heritage well-known, such as the Cerralbo and Sorolla, and the
worked, Madrid also boasts an important cultural Institution. The city of Madrid is home to the royal museums of Romanticism, the Americas, Anthropology
heritage encompassing most European styles. This monasteries of Las Descalzas and La Encarnación as and Decorative Arts. To the list we can add the Lázaro
guide provides a basic introduction to the city’s main well as El Pardo Palace and the Royal Palace, and the Galdiano Foundation, which inherited its holdings from
museums, covering the most frequent thematic greater region of Madrid is home to Aranjuez Palace a private collector who gave the foundation its name.
elements of Western art. The high point of this and the Monastery of El Escorial, whose collections For its part, the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine
itinerary is of course the Art Walk (Paseo del Arte), boast particularly fine examples of the sumptuary Arts is a unique institution, which, besides promoting
roughly one and a half kilometres of green spaces arts, furniture and painting. Meanwhile, although its the study, dissemination and safeguarding of art, also
housing three of the world’s top galleries – the Prado, collections harbour more than just works of art, the boasts one of the most interesting museums you can
Thyssen-Bornemisza, and Reina Sofía museums – National Archaeological Museum reveals the various visit in the city. It would take a lifetime to become
offering a complete overview of art from the Middle ways of life and the customs of civilisations that have intimately acquainted with all of the museums in
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Las Meninas exhibition hall in the Prado Museum Ages to the present. Art lovers also won’t want to miss passed through the Iberian Peninsula or have shaped Madrid, the world’s great art gallery, which invites us to
© Paolo Giocoso the Royal Sites, the group of buildings and gardens the idiosyncrasies of the Mediterranean. There are marvel at many of the finest masterpieces of all time. 3

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