Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Prado: A Description of the Principal Pictures in the Madrid Gallery
A royal collection, called into life in large measure by the munificence of personal patron age, it shows many of the distinctive character istics of a private collection. Certainly, the choice of its pictures has been largely an expres sion of individual taste; and for this reason the dominating impression we receive is of a collection of superbly beautiful works, and these must be regarded as the adornments of a palace rather than as examples of the works of any par ticular school. In fine, the Prado is the gallery of a collector, or, to be more exact, of a group of connoisseurs.
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