The Prado, Madrid Spain

Sparrows on the steps of the Prada Museum in Madrid, Spain.

Both of my aging parents fell ill recently, and I had to make a trip back to Texas to care for them.  I also had developed a "horseshoe tear" and a detached retina in my right eye, so I have been gone for quite some time.  Being advised not to strain my eyes, my work with my photographs has sat waiting, and my other projects as well have been neglected.    I have done all that I can to help my parents, and I have gotten the tear, and the second one that developed later also treated with laser surgery, in fact, now so many times the back of my eye must look like a quilt.  Recovery is coming along for all of us, and now it is time to get back to my writing.

So here are a few photos from the outside of the beautiful Prado Museum of Madrid, Spain, I hope you enjoy them!

Madrid Spain Has This Museum We Really Want to See!

I am so excited about this particular exhibit!

        

The Musee du Louvre is collaborating with the Museo del Prado to present the work of the artist Ingres, who was a portrait painter.  He is claimed to have both admired this type of art works, and both rejected it as true art form, and viewed it as more of a commercial endeavor.  He did desire to be recognized as a history painter, and for this reason he painted portraits.

I personally think that capturing the essence of who a person is in a painting is the most fascinating of all the art undertakings.  He is of course remembered as a genius of the portrait, and I particularly am interested in see his portraits of Napoleon I on His Throne and Joan of Ark.