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40-404: A race was held originally as an open-wheel motor race on a street circuit at Le Bardo , west of Tunis. The first race was held on 3 June 1928, when Algerian-based driver Marcel Lehoux won the 200-mile race in his Bugatti T35C by a large margin over Marcel Joly and Guy Cloitre in a field mainly of Bugattis and Amilcars . November the following year saw Italian driver Gastone Brilli-Peri win in

80-536: A French protectorate in May 1881. [REDACTED] Media related to Bardo, Tunisia at Wikimedia Commons prado#Spanish The Museo del Prado ( / ˈ p r ɑː d oʊ / 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

120-614: A gunpowder -store for the Napoleonic troops based in Madrid during the war. The next renovations that this museum will undergo will be conducted by British architect Norman Foster. This renovation was approved in June 2020 and is expected to take a minimum of four years. In 1991, Manuel Villaescusa bequeathed his fortune of nearly $ 40 million in Madrid real estate to the Prado, to be used solely for

160-455: A $ 32 million extension of the Prado. The museum announced the selection of Foster and Rubio after a jury reviewed the proposals of the eight competition finalists – including David Chipperfield , Rem Koolhaas and Eduardo Souto de Moura – who had already been shortlisted from an initial list of 47 international teams of architects. The building was acquired by the Prado in 2015, after having served as an army museum until 2005. The project

200-701: A garden. Bardo became a residence of the Tunis court in the 18th century. With the arrival of Husseinite beys , Bardo became a political, intellectual and religious center. The ancient beys' residence was the site of the Tunisian National Assembly headquarters, and the National Museum opened there in 1888. The city gave its name to the Treaty of Bardo , signed in Ksar Saïd Palace , which placed Tunisia under

240-499: A monumental urban space. The building was initially conceived by José Moñino y Redondo, count of Floridablanca , and was commissioned in 1785 by Charles III for the reurbanización of the Paseo del Prado. To this end, Charles III called on one of his favorite architects, Juan de Villanueva , author also of the nearby Botanical Garden and the City Hall of Madrid. The prado ("meadow") that

280-464: A works Alfa Romeo P2 after the early retirements of team mates Achille Varzi and Baconin Borzacchini . After a year off, the race returned in 1931 at a new venue, a much larger triangular highway circuit laid out between the then separate cities of Tunis and Carthage . The 1931 season-opening race was much more serious in its entry with eleven European grand prix and 16 1.5-litre cars racing with

320-432: Is designed to give the Prado about 61,500 square feet of additional available space, of which about 27,000 square feet will be used to exhibit works. Only in 2021, the Spanish government approved the plans and awarded the project 36 million euros. The Prado Museum building is one of the buildings constructed during the reign of Charles III (Carlos III) as part of a grandiose building scheme designed to bestow upon Madrid

360-765: Is one of the largest museums in Spain. The Prado, with the nearby Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Museo Reina Sofía , forms Madrid's Golden Triangle of Art , which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2021. The building that is now the home of the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed in 1785 by architect of the Enlightenment in Spain Juan de Villanueva on the orders of Charles III to house

400-464: The 12th century to the early 20th century, based on the former Spanish royal collection , and the single best collection of Spanish art . Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works. The numerous works by Francisco Goya , the single most extensively represented artist, as well as by Hieronymus Bosch , El Greco , Peter Paul Rubens , Titian , and Diego Velázquez , are some of

440-475: The European championship saw entries plummet for 1936 with just eleven cars starting. Varzi had an enormous accident in his Auto Union on a terrible day for the team which saw another of its C Types destroyed by fire. Rudolf Caracciola won in his Mercedes-Benz W25 ahead of Carlo Pintacuda 's Alfa Romeo 8C and Jean-Pierre Wimille (Bugatti T59). The 1937 race became a sportscar event held over three heats which

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480-503: The Germans to stage a motor race around an airfield. Australian officer Jack Bartle won the race, driving a Citroën . Results sourced from: Le Bardo Le Bardo ( Arabic : باردو Bardow ) is a Tunisian city west of Tunis . As of 2004, the population is 73,953. Built by the Hafsid dynasty in the 14th century, the name Bardo comes from the Spanish word " prado " meaning

520-458: The Madrazos, José de Madrazo y Agudo and Federico de Madrazo , Vicente López , Carlos de Haes , Eduardo Rosales and Sorolla . Upon the deposition of Isabella II in 1868, the museum was nationalized and acquired the new name of " Museo del Prado ". The building housed the royal collection of arts, and it rapidly proved too small. The first enlargement to the museum took place in 1918. Since

560-480: The Maserati of Goffredo Zehender. The 1934 race was cancelled and when racing returned in 1935, Varzi was back with his new team, Auto Union . The only German car in the field dominated the race and Varzi's A Type finished four minutes clear of Jean-Pierre Wimille 's Bugatti T59 and two laps ahead of Philippe Etancelin's Maserati 6C . The increasing dominance of German cars and the reduced status of races outside of

600-597: The Natural History Cabinet. Nonetheless, the building's final function was not decided until the monarch's grandson, Ferdinand VII , encouraged by his wife, Queen María Isabel de Braganza , decided to use it as a new Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures. The royal museum, which would soon become known as the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, and subsequently the Museo Nacional del Prado, opened to

640-684: The Pomegranate purchased in 2016. Between 1873 and 1900, the Prado helped decorate city halls, new universities, and churches. During the Second Spanish Republic from 1931 to 1936, the focus was on developing provincial museums. During the Spanish Civil War , upon the recommendation of the League of Nations , the museum staff removed 353 paintings, 168 drawings and the Dauphin's Treasure and sent

680-670: The Prado from the Museo de la Trinidad, including The Fountain of Grace by the School of Van Eyck, the Santo Domingo and San Pedro Martír altarpieces painted for the monastery of Santo Tomás in Ávila by Pedro Berruguete , and the five canvases by El Greco executed for the Colegio de doña María de Aragón. Most of the Museum's 19th-century paintings come from the former Museo de Arte Moderno, including works by

720-561: The Virgin (Mantegna) by Mantegna , The Holy Family , known as " La Perla (painting) ", by Raphael , Equestrian Portrait of Charles V by Titian , Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet by Tintoretto , Dürer 's Self-portrait at 26 , Las Meninas by Velázquez, The Three Graces by Rubens, and The Family of Charles IV by Goya. In addition to works from the Spanish royal collection ,

760-435: The acquisition of paintings. The museum subsequently sold Villaescusa's buildings to realize income from them. The bequest suddenly made the Prado one of the most formidable bidders for paintings in the world. Until the early 2000s, the Prado's annual income was approximately $ 18 million, $ 15 million of which came from the government and the remainder from private contributions, publications, and admissions. In 2001,

800-407: The art to Valencia , then later to Girona , and finally to Geneva . The art had to be returned across French territory in night trains to the museum upon the commencement of World War II. During the early years of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco , many paintings were sent to embassies. The main building was enlarged with short pavilions in the rear between 1900 and 1960. The next enlargement

840-499: The basement walls from falling during construction. The enlargement is an underground building which connects the main building to another one entirely reconstructed. In November 2016, it was announced that British architect Norman Foster , in a joint project with Carlos Rubio Carvajal, is to renovate the Hall of Realms , which once formed part of the Buen Retiro palace and transform it into

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880-574: The collection of the Prado, with works from Spain, Ancient Egypt , Mesopotamia , Greece , and Rome . The Naval museum , managed by the Ministry of Defence , is also nearby. Between 8 November 2011 and 25 March 2012, a group of 179 works of art were brought to the Museo del Prado from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg . Notable works included: Conversely, for the first time in its 200-year history,

920-463: The conservative government of José María Aznar decided to change the museum's financing platform, ushering in a public-private partnership. Under its new bylaws, which the Cortes Generales approved in 2003, the Prado must gradually reduce its level of state support to 50 percent from 80 percent. In exchange, the museum gained control of the budget — which was roughly €35 million in 2004 — and

960-506: The creation of the Museo del Prado more than 2,300 paintings have been incorporated into its collection, as well as numerous sculptures, prints, drawings and works of art through bequests, donations and purchases, which account for most of the New Acquisitions. Numerous bequests have enriched the museum's holdings, such as the outstanding collection of medals left to the museum by Pablo Bosch;

1000-779: The drawings and items of decorative art left by Pedro Fernández Durán as well as Van der Weyden 's masterpiece, Duran Madonna ; and the Ramón de Errazu bequest of 19th-century paintings. Particularly important donations include Barón Emile d'Erlanger's gift of Goya's Black Paintings in 1881. Among the numerous works that have entered the collection through purchase are some outstanding ones acquired in recent years including two works by El Greco, The Fable and The Flight into Egypt acquired in 1993 and 2001, Goya's The Countess of Chinchon bought in 2000, Velázquez's Portrait of Ferdinando Brandani , acquired in 2003, Bruegel's The Wine of Saint Martin's Day bought in 2010 and Fra Angelico's Madonna of

1040-406: The highlights of the collection. Velázquez and his keen eye and sensibility were also responsible for bringing much of the museum's fine collection of Italian masters to Spain, now one of the largest outside of Italy. The collection currently comprises around 8,200 drawings, 7,600 paintings, 4,800 prints, and 1,000 sculptures, in addition to many other works of art and historic documents. As of 2012,

1080-531: The largest displayed at 14,000 megapixels . The images' zoom capability allows for close-up views of paint texture and fine detail. A few meters away there are two museums of international significance, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Museo Reina Sofía . Nearby is the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando . The Museo Arqueológico houses the archaeological collections formerly in

1120-458: The museum displayed about 1,300 works in the main buildings, while around 3,100 works were on temporary loan to various museums and official institutions. The remainder were in storage. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , in 2020 attendance plunged by 76 percent to 852,161. Nonetheless, the Prado was ranked as the 16th most-visited museum in the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020. It

1160-467: The other holdings increased and enriched the museum with further masterpieces, such as the two Majas by Goya. Among the now closed museums whose collections have been added to that of the Prado were the Museo de la Trinidad in 1872, and the Museo de Arte Moderno in 1971. In addition, numerous legacies, donations and purchases have been of crucial importance for the growth of the collection. Various works entered

1200-579: The power to raise money from corporate donations and merchandising. However, its 2004 €150 million expansion was paid for by the Spanish state. The first four directors were drawn from nobility. From 1838 to 1960, the directors were mostly artists. Since then, most of them have been art historians . In 2009, the Prado Museum selected 14 of its most important paintings to be displayed in Google Earth and Google Maps at extremely high resolution, with

1240-587: The present-day Museo del Prado , started to increase significantly in the 16th century during the time of Charles V and continued under the succeeding Habsburg and Bourbon monarchs. Their efforts and determination led to the royal collection being enriched by some of the masterpieces now to be seen in the Prado. These include The Descent from the Cross (van der Weyden) by Rogier van der Weyden , The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch , The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest by El Greco , Death of

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1280-507: The public for the first time in November 1819. It was created with the double aim of showing the works of art belonging to the Spanish Crown and to demonstrate to the rest of Europe that Spanish art was of equal merit to any other national school. Also, this museum needed several renovations during the 19th and 20th centuries, because of the increase of the collection as well as the increase of

1320-455: The public who wants to see all the collection that the museum hosted. The first catalogue of the museum, published in 1819 and solely devoted to Spanish painting, included 311 paintings, although at that time the museum housed 1,510 from the various royal residences, the Reales Sitios, including works from other schools. The exceptionally important royal collection, which forms the nucleus of

1360-599: The rest of the placings filled with 2.0-litre cars. From 2000 to 2008, a historic revival event was organised in the Circuito du Belvedere parkland circuit. Another event called the Tunisian Grand Prix was held in 1943. This very informal event was organised by allied soldiers after the fall of Tunisia . To give lie to German claims they had left nothing usable behind in Tunisia, allied personnel utilised vehicles abandoned by

1400-606: The smaller motor cycle-powered cars having disappeared. Achille Varzi in a back-door works Bugatti T51 won on the debut of the new car and Varzi's first race in a Bugatti, ahead of Luigi Fagioli in a works Maserati 26M and Marcel Lehoux in a (Bugatti). Varzi won the following year against Lehoux and Philippe Etancelin (Alfa Romeo). 1933 saw the Alfa Romeos sweep Bugatti aside with the Scuderia Ferrari entries of Tazio Nuvolari and Baconin Borzacchini finishing one-two ahead of

1440-467: The yearly number of visitors from 1.8 million to 2.5 million. A glass-roofed and wedge-shaped foyer now contains the museum's shops and cafeteria, removing them from the main building to make more room for galleries. The 16th-century Cloister of Jerónimo has been removed stone by stone to make foundations for increased stability of surrounding buildings and will be re-assembled in the new museum's extension. Hydraulic jacks had to be used to prevent

1480-513: Was quickly abandoned after a wave of criticism. In the late 1990s, a $ 14 million roof work forced the Velázquez masterpiece Las Meninas to change galleries twice. In 1998, the Prado annex in the nearby Casón del Buen Retiro closed for a $ 10 million two-year overhaul that included three new underground levels. In 2007, the museum finally executed Rafael Moneo 's project to expand its exposition room to 16,000 square meters, hoping to increase

1520-562: Was the incorporation of two buildings (nearby but not adjacent) into the institutional structure of the museum: the Casón del Buen Retiro , which is equipped to display up to 400 paintings and which housed the bulk of the 20th-century art from 1971 to 1997, and the Salón de Reinos (Throne building), formerly the Army Museum. In 1993, an extension proposed by the Prado's director at the time, Felipe Garin,

1560-519: Was where the museum now stands gave its name to the area, the Salón del Prado (later Paseo del Prado ), and to the museum itself upon nationalisation . Work on the building stopped at the conclusion of Charles III's reign and throughout the Peninsular War and was only initiated again during the reign of Charles III's grandson, Ferdinand VII . The premises had been used as headquarters for the cavalry and

1600-463: Was won by Raymond Sommer in a Talbot T-150C ahead of a fleet Delahaye 135s led by René Dreyfus and Laury Schell. The race was not held again until 1955, again as a sports car race with a small 14-car entry in a public park as the Circuito du Belvedere . The race, held over three heats, saw a pair of Ferrari 750 Monzas take home the silverware with Luigi Piotti and Luigi Bordonaro driving with

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