Museums of Spain

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Museums of Spain

• BY Irma Tolle
• Alejandro Felts

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El Prado

• Renowned as being the largest art gallery in the
  world.
• It houses more than 8,600 paintings, of which the
  exhibit less than 2,000 because of lack of space.
• The present day gallery comes from the royal
  collection of the old Trinidad Museum.

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El Prado

• Its history began during the reign of Charles
  III, when he tried to create a single art
  collection under one roof.
• But it was not until the reign of Fernando VII
  when the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture
  was created, on 19th November 1819.
• The kings death caused inheritance problems and
  endangered the unity of the collection.
• disappearance of the monarchy in Spain the museum
  became national property and became known as the
  Prado National Museum

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Collection at El Prado

• The Italian school has among others, works by
  Andrea Mantenga, Sandro Botticelli, Rafael,
  Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Lorenzo Lotte,
  Tintoretto, Verones, Tiepolo and above all,
  Tiziano.
• The Spanish school is represented with works by
  our grand masters Bartolomé Bermejo, Pedro
  Berruguete, Luis de Morales, El Greco, Juan B.
  Maino, José de Ribera, Alonso Cano, Caudio
  Coello, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Luis
  Meléndez,Goya ..... and a long list of great
  artists.

a city on a hilltop
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

• one of the most important ingredients in the plan
  to redevelop the city of Bilbao.
• The ambitious plan for bringing the Guggenheim
  Museum to Bilbao got under way in February 1991
• In December 1991, after months of negotiations
  signed the Development and Programming Services
  Agreement for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao at the
  Provincial Council's headquarters in Bilbao

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

• On October 3, 1997, with the building finished
  and completely fitted out, a fortnight of
  inaugural events began that ended when the Museum
  opened its doors to the general public for the
  first time on October 19. Less than one year
  later, the Basque Museum had already received
  more than 1,300, 000 visitors

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection
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Dalí Theatre-Museum

• Inaugurated in 1974, the museum was built upon
  the remains of the former Figueres theatre.
• It contains the broadest range of works spanning
  the artistic career of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
• The Dalí Theatre-Museum has to be seen as a
  whole, as the great work of Salvador Dalí, for
  everything in it was conceived and designed by
  the artist in order to offer visitors a real
  experience of getting inside his captivating and
  unique world

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Exhibits in the Museums

• Some of the most outstanding works on exhibition
  there are Port Alguer, Cadaqués (1924), The
  Spectre of Sex Appeal (1932), Soft Self-Portrait
  with Fried Bacon (1941), Poetry of America The
  Cosmic Athletes (1943), Galarina (1944-45),
  Basket of Bread Rather Death than Shame (1945),
  Leda Atòmica (1949) and Galatea of the Spheres
  (1952).

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Works of Dali
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Works of Dali
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Sources

• www.dali-gallery.com
• www.salvadordalimuseum.org
• www.guggenheim.org
• www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/global/bilbao.html
  
• www.kirikou.com
• www.spanisharts.com/prado/prado.htm
• museoprado.mcu.es