Los públicos que formaron el Museo del Pradotransformaciones en la proyección pública y la utilidad social del Museo tras su nacionalización (1868-1900)

Resumen

The Prado Museum came to existence by benefiting from the royal art collections and remained attached to the Crown until its nationalization in 1868. However, the unique museum that we know and the institution that it has become, was theresult of the successive contributions of its directors, that progressively, shaped and moulded its internal organization, its structures and the consolidation of its collections. In 1868, the year of the “La Gloriosa Revolution”, Antonio Gisbert became its13 Director (1868-1873). He devoted himself to provide the Museum with a regulation possessed of a distinctive character and personality that would shape an institution that, up to that moment, had presented great deficiencies concerning its organization and structures, but never its identity. Gisbert (1868-1873) was succeeded by Francisco Sans y Cabot (1873-1881), Federico Madrazo (1881-1889), Vicente Palmaroli (1895-1896), Francisco Pradilla (1896-1898) and Luis Alvaréz Catalá (1898-1901). Along with each of the directors came the sequential drafting changes of the regulatory framework that laid the foundations for the internal organization of the Museum and the statutes and formal provisions for the public...