Saturday, June 03, 2006

PRADO museum



The "PRADO" museum in Madrid
is one of the 4 big museums in the world.
It has more than 7,000 pictures collected
by the sucessive Kings of the Spain.

Among them,
the selected 81 great pictures were exhibited
at the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno.

Most of the works were religious pictures after the Bible.
And there were also many portraits of the Kings&Nobels
appear in a school textbook.
Anyway, every picture was beautiful!!, I felt.

While I appreciated these great pictures,
I was overpowered with "importance of history" "greatness of genuine".
This exhibition was so good! I was very satisfied^o^.

El Greco,Rubens Goya,Velazquez,Tiziano...
The exhibition covers the almost noted artists from Holland to Spain.
I introduce some masterpiece here.

First, the right of picture,
"Amor and Venus who relax with music" by Tiziano Vecellio

The goddness of love,"Venus" and "organist".
Their expressions are good and the pastoral beautiful background
also matches well with them.
It was a very beatutiful picture!!

They say that it's sensual and expresses the moral of "sight & hearing".

"The shell of children" by Murillo

The little "Jesus & Iohannes" and a pretty "lamb".
The shell with water is carried to a Iohanne's mouth by a Jesus's hand.

It says in the paper wound the cross that {Look at! a lamb of God!}.

As showing an innocent daily scene, it wafts the religious spiritual maind.
Though it's a religious theme, what a lovely and heartwarming it is!?
I stood in admiration of the picture.

"The children who pick fruits" by Goya

This is the one in a series of pictures
to decorate a dining room of the
El-paruto Palace,the suburbs of Madrid.


Their bright faces make you happy.
You'll be able to eat at the dining room in a merry mood^o^.

well,,,Talking of Goya, I had a image of a scary,bark,uncanny....pictures.
He paints many kinds of picture, doesn't it?


The woman in the right picture is "Santa Maria Maddalena".
She is the kye person of 'Da Vinci Code' in the spotlight.

And the woman next to Jesus in the 'Last Supper' by Leonald Davinci
is also...."Santa Maria Maddalena"????

The wedding reception is the theme
that often picked up in the Flandre picture.


The union of
"beautiful nature & superb ancient architecture".
I like the peaceful landscape.



A well-balanced color is beautiful!!
A sense of materials is well caught.
Plum,Fig,Bread....temp my appetite^o^.