Thyssen Museum

Given the variety and richness of its funds, with more than 1,000 works of art, it is advisable to start the visit by the part of the collection that most interested us. The early Italian, German Renaissance, American painting of the nineteenth, Impressionism, German Expressionism and Russian Constructivism are schools and most widely represented in the museum movement.

The collection

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has strengths in that of which lack other Spanish museums. Painting Trecento (XIV century in Italy) with the work of Duccio, Christ and the Samaritan or Flemish primitive school in Annunciation Diptych a grisaille (painting pretending to be sculpture) of Jan Van Eyck, are key collection of late medieval art pieces. The museum also has a fine selection of portraits of the fifteenth century, among them that of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Ghirlandaio and an unknown gentleman work of Carpaccio. Then Dürer, Caravaggio, Rubens, Frans Hals and Canaletto help us understand the paths by which art passes between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

Landscape and genre painting, especially frequent themes of the Dutch school of the seventeenth century and the American nineteenth century can be studied very well in the museum. This same concern also expressed the romantic painters such as Friedrich, the Impressionists like Monet and Degas and post-impressionist Gauguin and Van Gogh, all present in the museum's collection.

The last rooms are a complete sample of the vanguards of the twentieth century: Fauvism, expressionism, surrealism, abstraction and pop art. Harlequin with mirror by Picasso, with three stains n.196 Painting Kandinsky, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Granada a second before awakening Dali, Chagall's Cock, hotel room Hopper and Women in Lichtenstein bath are some of the most important works of the last century.