The world's truly huge museums, like Madrid's Prado, above, can take hours or days to go through and can leave you feeling fully nourished, or occasionally overfed. But they can also leave you with a few tidbits to snack on afterwards.
These are a few of mine from a visit to the Prado last summer, starting with a statue whose pose belies the name carved on her pedestal.
Two views of a statue of the Holy Roman Emperor Carlos V. The Emperor commissioned it himself from the Italian sculptor Leone Leoni. The underlying nude figure is on display now, but the museum also has the screw-on armor that Leoni also supplied.
A student copies a master's vegetables, near a large painting of a dog who appears to be casting a questioning eye on the painter.
And lest things seem too calm and domestic, a reminder that art can reflect society's tensions and upheavals as well. This 1892 painting of a strike in Vizcaya is by Vicente Cutanda y Toraya.
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