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Museo del Prado

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The Museo del Prado, officially the Museo Nacional del Prado, is Spain's main national art museum, located in central Madrid. It houses European art dating from the twelfth century to the early twentieth, built on the former Spanish royal collection, and holds the single finest collection of Spanish art anywhere. Founded as a museum of painting and sculpture in 1819, it also holds important collections of other kinds of work; its holdings of Francisco Goya, its most extensively represented artist, sit alongside major works by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian and Diego Velazquez. Velazquez's own eye, exercised in his own lifetime as a court painter, was also responsible for bringing much of the museum's collection of Italian masters to Spain, now one of the largest such collections outside Italy.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Art Museum 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Madrid, Spain 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1819 2
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Museum 1
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Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Museo del Prado (Wikipedia)
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  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Museo del Prado, officially the Museo Nacional del Prado, is Spain's main national art museum, located in central Madrid. It houses European art dating from the twelfth century to the early twentieth, built on the former Spanish royal collection, and holds the single finest collection of Spanish art anywhere. Founded as a museum of painting and sculpture in 1819, it also holds important collections of other kinds of work; its holdings of Francisco Goya, its most extensively represented artist, sit alongside major works by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian and Diego Velazquez. Velazquez's own eye, exercised in his own lifetime as a court painter, was also responsible for bringing much of the museum's collection of Italian masters to Spain, now one of the largest such collections outside Italy.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Art Museum)
    The Museo del Prado ( PRAH-doh; Spanish pronunciation: [muˈseo ðel ˈpɾaðo]), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It houses collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, based on the former Spanish royal collection, and is the single best collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museu
  • In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Neoclassical architecture in Madrid
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2. Museo del Prado (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1819)
    Wikidata item Q160112, property P1619: 1819
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Madrid, Spain
    Wikidata item Q160112, property P131/P17 (location): Madrid, Spain
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