This morning, Easter Sunday, I met Sean at the Guzman al Bueno metro stop and we took the metro down to Banco de Espana to walk along the Paseo del Prado, including the Plaza de Cibeles. We went just at opening to the Prado museum, which houses around 3,000 canvases, mostly Spanish and European, and has an extensive collection of paintings by El Greco, Francisco de Goya, Diego Velazquez, Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Durer, Titian and Raphael, among others. The most prominent artists are the ones listed. The Goya works I enjoyed the most were The Second of May, 1808 and The Third of May, 1808, El Aquelarre and Saturno, among others and the Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights was absolutely amazing in person. I also loved seeing Ruben’s Las Tres Gracias (The Three Graces)
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