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Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

MADRID - Renoir respective opens

A major retrospective of the work of Renoir has just opened at the Prado art gallery in Madrid.
  Our mp3 tour of Madrid tells of the history of this great museum and art gallery.  The building was designed at the end of the eighteenth century, by Juan de Villanueva who designed the city’s elegant town hall.  The Prado was originally going to be a museum of natural sciences, but it was Joseph Bonaparte who decided, a few years later to turn it into a public art gallery, one of the first of its kind.
  It is vast with a new extension increasing the floor space by half as much again.  Amongst the highlights is Las Meninas by the great Spanish painter Velasquez.   Sometimes called the greatest painting in the world, it’s an enigmatic work with a brilliant use of perspective.
  Our Madrid audio tour talks about the other most famous work in the Prado is simpler and but passionate and direct.  It’s called the 3rd of May 1808.  I mentioned it at the start of the tour when I talked about the history of Madrid and it shows a brave citizen being shot at close range by one of Napoleon’s invading troops.  In fact, the works and the life of Goya, one of the most brilliant and tortured artists who ever lived are well worth seeing.
   Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the leading artists of Impressionism, as well as a painter who studied the great masters, including some of those best represented in the Prado, such as Titian, Rubens and Velázquez, whose work he could have seen during his trip to the Museum in 1892.  This is the first such exhibition of his work in Spain.

Passion for Renoir - 19th October 2010 - 6th February 2011

Museo Nacional del Prado

Paseo del Prado

Madrid 



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