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Late last year an addition to the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid was completed; its main feature is a suite of galleries for temporary exhibitions. The first show to be mounted there draws attention to the very large collection of nineteenth-century Spanish art that has not been available in the galleries for many years. Called The Nineteenth Century in the Prado: A Collection Rediscovered, the show contains ninety-five paintings and twelve sculptures by the leading masters of Spanish art, from the last years of Goya, about 1805, to Joaquin Sorolla in 1910. The opening section includes works by Goya alongside ones by such near contemporaries as Vicente Lopez. Other sections highlight romanticism; the ...