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The museum of the meadow was conceived initial by Carlos III as natural history room. The king already had ordered to your architect, John of Villanueva, a series of singular buildings to be appointed to to the science. Would that, Villanueva projected the current museum, the botanical garden, located in the wide sketch that were carrying out in the part of the jardines of the retirement that gave facade towards the salon of the meadow, already in the area, the astronomical observatory and in the opposed sidewalk the Martínez silversmith's trade, today disappeared ( in your ancestral home constructed the one which now is ministry of healthiness ). The project of the current art gallery was passed by Carlos III in 1786.John of Villanueva got reaches to the culmination of your architectural run with the construction of this building. It is considered the more ambitious work of the Spanish neoclassicism. The works of construction went of many years of duration, along the whole Carlos IV. reign with the arrival of the frenches to Spain and the War of Independence interrupted. The building was then used for die militaries ( went quarters of mount ) and was striped of the whole lead roof that it had. In that moment it began your deterioration it increased with the years, until in the reign of Fernando VII, your Isabela spouse of Braganza wanted recover it in order that arrive to a total ruin (1818). She went the great impellatrix of this project of recovery and to her is must the final success, if it did not live to savor it because died a year before the inauguration. So much Fernando VII as Isabela of Braganza contributed with considerable sums of money belonging to him. They took to him there many painting of works and sculpture of the real palace and of other real places.Digital photo carried out for P40p, hastened of the correct weight and touched up for Nicolás Pérez ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_Prado |http|

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