The Prado Museum – A Collection Of Wonders
A cinematic journey through the rooms, stories and emotions of one of the most visited museums in the world.
In 2019, the year of its 200th Anniversary celebration, this documentary tells the story of the Prado in Madrid; one of the temples of world art, a site of memory and a mirror to the present with 1700 works exhibited and a further 7000 art treasures preserved there. Its collection tells the story of kings, queens, dynasties, wars, defeats and victories, as well as the story of the feelings and emotions of the men and women of yesteryear and of today, whose lives are intertwined with the museum’s: rulers, painters, artists, architects, collectors, curators, intellectuals, visitors. Jeremy Irons guides spectators on a discovery of a heritage of beauty and art. Masterpieces of Vélazquez, Rubens, Titian, Mantegna, Bosch, Goya and El Greco tell the story of Spain and of an entire continent.