Pablo Picasso attended several schools of fine arts in Spain. According to the search results, he first attended the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where his father taught, at the age of 13. He was there for three years before enrolling in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, which was Spains top art academy at the time. However, he attended the academy only briefly, preferring to roam the art exhibits at the Prado, studying paintings of Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, El Greco, Francisco Goya, and Diego Veláquez.