Masterpieces of European Painting
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The Thyssen-Bornemisza family collected what became one of the world's finest private art collections over a number of generations. The Spanish state bought it from them in 1993 for USD 350 million and converted the early-19th-century neoclassical Villahermosa Palace into a fabulous art gallery. You will see masterpieces by Van Dyck, Durer, Caravaggio, Rubens, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and Kandinsky among others. The collection follows a chronological order running from the 13th to the 20th Century. There is a cafeteria-restaurant, free cloakroom and a conference room. Admission: EUR6; students, senior citizens: EUR4; under-12s: free. Temporary Exhibitions: EUR5; students, senior citizens: EUR4. Combined Admission: EUR9; students, senior citizens: EUR5. Group bookings: taquilla@museothyssen.org, or call +34 91 369 0151.
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Fantin-LatourSep 29th, 2009 to Jan 10th, 2010
10:00AM
This is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the French painter Henri Fantin-Latour to be held in Spain. It is jointly organised with the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, where it can be seen from 26 June to 6 September 2009. An artist of the generation of Manet, Degas and Whistler, Fantin-Latour (Grenoble, 1836 Buré, 1904) shared many of their ideas but for various complex reasons has not been considered one of the great pioneers of modern art. The present exhibition aims to rectify that position and will present a comprehensive selection of more than 70 oil paintings and drawings representing the finest examples of his work, loaned from museums and collections worldwide.
Tears of Eros
Oct 20th, 2009 to Jan 31st, 2010
10:00AM
Tears of Eros, a major exhibition devoted to the torments of passion: the dark side of sexual desire. The title of the exhibition is taken from the book by the French writer Georges Bataille, Les larmes dEros, and is based on a number of his ideas on eroticism, such as the prohibition/transgression dialectic and the identification of the erotic with religious sacrifice. The exhibition has a global, pansexual character, covering the widest range of orientations and types of desire: the male and female gaze and the heterosexual and homosexual one, voyeurism and exhibitionism, bondage and sadomasochism, and the different varieties of fetishism. All these differing aspects are to be found within the compendium of the myths of Eros, both those deriving from the Greco-Roman Olympus and those originating in the Bible.
Jan Van Eyck: Grisailles
Nov 3rd, 2009 to Jan 31st, 2010
10:00AM
The Annunciation Diptych by Jan van Eyck, which is one of the gems in the Museums permanent collection, is also one of the most important examples of grisaille painting. This was a widely used and highly appreciated technique from the late 14th onwards, based on the graduated application of a single colour, generally grey or neutral tones, which modelled the shadows to create an effect of sculptural relief. For the first time the exhibition will compare various examples of late Medieval grisaille depictions in the media of drawing and painting as well as ivories, illuminations, textiles and glass and metal objects. The aim is to offer a survey of this technique with the intention of investigating its possible artistic, social and practical implications.
Monet and Abstraction
Feb 23rd, 2010 to May 30th, 2010
10:00AM
Monet and Abstraction aims to explore the crucial but still little studied role of this great Impressionist painter in the development of abstract painting after World War II. The exhibition takes the form of a survey of the artists work, from his ethereal landscapes to the monumental depictions of his garden at Giverny where he spent the last twenty years of his life. Through these works the exhibition will analyse how Monets ongoing obsession with capturing a sense of the instantaneous led him to break down pictorial representation to a mood of near abstraction.
Domenico Ghirlandaio: Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni
Jun 22nd, 2010 to Oct 10th, 2010
10:00AM
The exhibition will offer the visitor a unique survey of Quattrocento Florentine art whose starting-point is one of the great paintings in the Museums collection, the Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. Within this context the exhibition will analyse portraiture in Florence through works by Botticelli and Pollaiuolo as well as Ghirlandaio himself and will focus on masterpieces associated with the marriage between Giovanna degli Albizzi and Lorenzo Tornabuoni. Finally, it will include an important section on religious art made for private devotional purposes, bringing together not just panel paintings but also sculptures, manuscripts and other objects of the highest artistic quality.
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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
One of the greatest private collections of are in the world. This is another must for anyone who li...
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A Great Collection
One of the best private collections in the world, now available for all to see. Most of the great a...
Reviewed by:A Yahoo! Contributor from on Oct 29 2007
Amazing Collection
I was suprised at the quality of exhibits of this once private collection. Countless works of art, b...
Reviewed by:A Yahoo! Contributor from on Jun 13 2007
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