The art of Spain

Aerial view of the Alhambra, a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada in southern Spain Photograph: Miguel Angel Molina/EPA

Madinat, Al-Zahara, known as the 'Vesailles of Spain', 5km outside Córdoba, Spain. The site dates back to 936 Photograph: Silvia Sacco/© BBC

Interior of the Alcázar of Seville. Originally a fort, the palace was built on the Moorish ruins in 1364 for King Pedro of Castile Photograph: Silvia Sacco/© BBC

El Greco's (Doménicos Theotokópoulos, 1541-1614) The Baptism of Christ Photograph: PA

Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. Oil on canvas, 318 x 276cm, c1656. Museo Nacional del Prado Photograph: Corbis

Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May, 1808 by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Oil on canvas, 268 x 347cm, 1814, Prado Museum in Madrid Photograph: Corbis

A view of Antoni Gaudí's (1852 - 1926) Palais Guell, Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain Photograph: G Schuster/Corbis

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

A visitor looks at Salvador Dalí's (1904-1989) sculpture Topological Metamorphosis of the Venus de Milo Photograph: Henning Kaiser/AFP