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The Casón del Buen Retiro is an annex of the Museo del Prado complex in Madrid. Following major restoration work, which was completed in October 2007,〔(Library and study centre ) Museo del Prado. Retrieved 25 May 2013.〕 it now houses the Museum's study centre (the Escuela del Prado) and library. Picasso's ''Guernica'' canvas, and the sketches associated with its creation, were on display at the Casón from 1981, when it was delivered to Spain from New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), to 1992, when it was moved to its current permanent location in a purpose-built gallery at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.〔 ("Un millón de personas ha visto el 'Guernica' en el Casón del Buen Retiro" ) ''El País''. Retrieved 25 May 2013.〕 ==History== Located in front of the Puerta de Felipe IV entrance to the west side of the Retiro Park, the Casón was originally built as the ballroom, the ''Salón de Baile'', of the Buen Retiro Palace, of which now only two buildings, the Casón and the Salón de Reinos which, until it was moved to the Alcázar de Toledo in 2010, housed the Museo del Ejército (Army Museum), still remain. The artistic importance of Luca Giordano's ''The Allegory of the Golden Fleece'', on the ceiling of the Casón, commissioned by King Charles II of Spain (ca.1697), and considered one of the masterpieces of the Prado, is one of the possible reasons given for the building having survived when most of the other buildings in the Bueno Retiro palace complex were knocked down.〔("The Allegory of the Golden Fleece by Giordano" ) Museo del Prado. Retrieved 25 May 2013.〕 From 1877 to 1960 the Casón was used as the Museo de Reproducciones Artísticas, set up by the then President of the Government, Antonio Canovas del Castillo, until it was moved to the Museo de América. The building was then used as a temporary exhibition space until 1971. From 1971 to 1981 it was used by the Museo del Prado for the 19th-century collections paintings and sculptures which had formerly been in the Museo de Arte Moderno and from 1981 to 1992, when it was moved to the Museo Reina Sofía, the Casón housed Picasso’s ''Guernica'' painting.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casón del Buen Retiro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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