The Madrid museum series - Prado museum
I have visited the famous Prado museum twice. The first time was in 2016 on my visit to Madrid - I wasn’t very impressed with it at that time. I visited again in 2020 when due to Covid, the accessible parts of the museum had been reduced and they had on a special exhibition with limited number of paintings. All the paintings available to view were in one huge hall and its connected rooms, with no photography allowed. I mostly covered the renaissance period and the one before it. I am sharing here some of the paintings that made my head turn. I liked the Cavarozzis, especially the “Holy family with Saint Catherine” . The light on the faces of the people in the painting is just so captivating, you can’t not look at them and be enthralled. And the second one I liked was ‘Sisyphus’ by Titian. The way his body has been shown, showcases his struggle with the unending physical work day after day, in a manner like no other. In the ’The Virgin and the Child’ by Trevisani, the sleeping ...