PRADO, First Floor
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- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
The first floor offers the most scenic part of the Prado, illuminated by skylights in the halls' ceilings.
In the large central hall, you can gorge on sixteenth-century Italian paintings and Spanish masterpieces from its "Golden Century" of art. However, the most important painting of them all, and the painting that is the museum's greatest symbol, is Las Meninas by Velásquez, which is the portrait of King Philip IV's family.
But the great number of works by Rubens are no joke either. The formidable Flemish painter of the early 1600s is both the declared heir of Italian Renaissance painting, and the favorite painter of the rulers of Baroque Europe, including of course the kings of Spain....