Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 6 | Spain Plans for One of Greatest Art Galleries

Spain Plans for One of Greatest Greate t Art Galleries By JOHN DE GANDT United Press Staff Correspondent MADRID Jan 22 UnIted Iress ress SpaIn's national museum known throughout the world ns as the Prado Is soon to become one of the most complete art galleries In Inthe inthe the world with an excellent and comprehensive classification of works whIch has bas been lacking so far In addItion to official and other contrIbutions the city of MadrId has decided to Include in the municipal municipal muni- muni cipal budget a yearly sum sum of lof pesetas over 2000 whIch will serveto serve serveto to purchase paIntings of periods or masters Insufficiently represented in the Prado to male make this museum a descriptive hIstory ot of paInting The first work thus bought is by Mateo Matco Cerezo SpanIsh painter of or orthe the seventeenth century and represents represents SaInt Augustine praying when the Virgin carryIng the Babe In her arms appears to hIm The three other paintings added to the Prado collection recently were donate l by the Countess of Niebla They are PortraIt of Dna Dona Maria Marla AntonIo Gonzaga y 37 life of the tenth MarquIs Mar Mar- quIs of Villafranca anca by Goya portraIt por- por portrait traIt of Dona Maria Marla r Porto For Por- to carrero twelfth Marquess of VII Vil- lafranca by Goya and portraIt of the Count of Arundel b by Van Dyck Enlargements are being made at atthe atthe the back of the museum to make it possIble to place the pictures totaling totaling total total- ing nearly nearh 2500 In a more suitable location than they are now It will also permit Ion classification b by epochs and schools On each side or of the Velasquez room two supplementary wings have been bunt built whIch means doubling the Present size of oC the center part of the museum this part Is called the bIg gallery and includes numerous works of the and Rubens schools