For jet-lag reasons, we scheduled our visit to the Prado late in our Madrid stay. By the time we got there, it was occurring to us that we had visited maybe two dozen art museums in the past year, many of them with multiple visits. Paris, Bruges, Ghent, Riga, Tallinn, London, New York, even Orlando and St. Petersburg, then Washington, DC. And now Madrid. Is it possible to get museum'd-out? we wondered. Compounding this concern, the Prado--now alone among the half dozen greatest museums of western art--still does not permit photos in its galleries. Accordingly, our visit to the Prado this year was a good bit shorter than the three previous rope-drop-until-closing visits. We took in the few masterpieces that most beckoned, zombied past the rest, and headed off for more churros and chocolate.
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| Original main entrance, still watched over by Velazquez |
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| Saturday afternoon--our visit was Monday--part of the quarter mile long line to get in free after 5PM |
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| Our one photo, taken, boldly, by Vicki, in the Bosch room--always the most densely packed in the museum; always cracks me up that the most popular painting in the Prado is Flemish, not Spanish |
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| Namely, Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights |
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| And Velazquez' Las Meninas, which I can never look at without cracking up, thinking of Dali's many references/ parodies..."landlord looking in to see what the crazy painter is up to..." |
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