This thematic route offers an approach to the Museum’s permanent collection through a selection of works on display. Devised by Eduardo Barba Gómez, gardener and researcher into art and botany, it reveals how the latter subject plays a significant role in the stories.

The diversity and richness of the Museo del Prado’s collections allow for this new interpretative approach, with a focus on more than 40 botanical species through a selection of 26 paintings by artists of the significance of Patinir, Fra Angelico, Titian, Velázquez, Rubens and Zurbarán. The route is complemented by a publication and an audio guide in Spanish and English.

The thematic route encompasses a broad chronological span, from Roman sculpture to the early 18th century, in order to reveal how the depiction of flowers and plants in paintings can refer to mythological, religious, aristocratic or popular symbols in order to imbue the scene with qualities intrinsic to them.