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The Prado Masterpieces invites you to discover the permanent collection of one of the most important art galleries in the world. In coffee-table book format, it brings together around 400 works in a single volume, illustrating the museum’s artistic evolution and legacy, presented chronologically—from Roman sculptures to Sorolla’s final paintings in the early 20th century.
The book fosters a dialogue between the most significant artists and the masterpieces they created, exploring how they inspired contemporaries and successors, as well as the connections between genres and schools—such as between the Italian and Flemish Renaissance, or artists of the calibre of Velázquez and Rubens. It is through this ongoing conversation between masters and their works that the book traces the evolution of art across paintings, drawings, sculptures, and decorative arts. A valuable lesson in the history of art summarised in the collection held by the Prado, itself shaped by the tastes of the Spanish Crown over several centuries of collecting.
This new edition in a new format has been printed and bound in Spain and designed by Fernando Gutiérrez (British Royal Designer). It features a hardcover binding with high-quality FSC-certified Buckram 500 paper from Wibalin House.
For this edition, all images have been updated using the latest high-resolution files from the Museo Nacional del Prado’s photographic archive, so that readers can admire details, textures and nuances that are not always easy to appreciate on a visit to the museum.
The Prado Masterpieces is an indispensable publication in the library of any art history lover, a book with great photographs that covers one of the most impressive and complete collections of ancient European art.
ISBN: 978-84-8480-617-2
