The must-see masterpieces of the Prado Museum
The top 3 according to 93 votes from people: Las Meninas · The Garden of Earthly Delights · Saturn Devouring His Son. (Updated Feb 14, 2025.)
The paintings you should not miss at the Prado, according to the museum's own masterpieces itinerary and the most-read visitor guides.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 20
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Las Meninas
Velázquez, 1656. The most studied game of glances in painting.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500. A triptych full of impossible creatures.
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Saturn Devouring His Son
Goya, 1819-1823. One of the Black Paintings from his country house.
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The Family of Charles IV
Goya, 1800. A royal portrait with the painter peeking from the back.
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The Third of May 1808 (The Executions)
Goya, 1814. The cry against war that inspired half the 20th century.
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The Descent from the Cross
Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1435. Flemish grief and precision at almost life size.
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The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest
El Greco, c. 1580. The Cretan painter's best-known portrait.
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The Nude Maja
Goya, before 1800. One of the most famous nudes in Spanish art.
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The Three Graces
Rubens, c. 1630-1635. The curves that gave us the word "Rubenesque".
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The Annunciation
Fra Angelico, c. 1425-1426. Gold, blue and the expulsion from Eden at one side.
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The Clothed Maja
Goya, c. 1800-1807. The companion piece; they hang side by side.
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The Surrender of Breda
Velázquez, 1634-1635. A victory painted with courtesy towards the defeated.
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The Holy Trinity
El Greco, 1577-1579. One of his first commissions in Toledo.
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The Triumph of Death
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562. An army of skeletons sweeps everything away.
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Emperor Charles V at Mühlberg
Titian, 1548. The equestrian portrait that fixed the emperor's image.
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Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes
Rembrandt, 1634. The museum's only large Rembrandt.
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Adam and Eve
Dürer, 1507. Two panels with the first life-size nudes of northern art.
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Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet
Tintoretto, c. 1548-1549. Theatrical perspective admired by Velázquez.
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The Dog
Goya, 1819-1823. Another Black Painting, almost abstract.
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Jacob's Dream
Jusepe de Ribera, 1639. A dream told with hardly an angel in sight.
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