Voces del Prado

Nostalgia of a hall

Inmaculada Echeverría Elvira, Head of the Technical Documentation and Laboratory Section, 1985-2024

When the cabinet was near the halls of Spanish painting and I went to the cafeteria or anywhere else, I had to go through the halls with the paintings by Rubens and The Muses on the side. They never looked so nice as in that period. You could look at the pictures, and you didn't tire from seeing them on a daily basis, there with The Muses. It is a great memory. That hall ended with Arianne, it was the round hall on the way to The Dauphin’s Treasure. You entered the door of Goya, went down to the central part and all the sculptures were placed on either side, with two altarpieces that still remain there. You could see everything, paintings and sculptures, perfectly integrated.