Things are turning around for Madrid’s Prado Museum. In an exhibition opening today (Nov. 7), the art institution is flipping some of its most renowned masterpieces around to showcase their backs. The ...

In Diego Velázquez’s cryptic Las Meninas (1656), a portrait session appears to be in progress. The young Infanta Margaret Theresa, King Philip IV of Spain’s first child, is resplendently posed in the ...

After more than a year of strict national and regional coronavirus confinements, Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado has brought some of its most famous artworks to the streets of the Spanish capital.

MADRID — Spain’s Prado Museum on Monday confirmed that a painting that was due to be auctioned in Madrid in 2021 is in fact a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was ...

From May 28 until October, the Prado Museum in Madrid will display Caravaggio's rediscovered Ecce Homo. @MuseodelPrado on X A rare Caravaggio painting, which was once misattributed with a shockingly ...

For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece. By Scott Reyburn Recent ...

MADRID (AP) — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s ...

If you’re thinking about your next trip, it’s worth booking those flights to Madrid just for its art alone: Madrid, Spain’s capital, is a city where art comes alive, weaving its history, culture, and ...

Two European museum powerhouses, the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, have signed an agreement to temporarily swap 236 art masterpieces in what it is an ...

MADRID — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado ...