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The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid Spain

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, or in Spanish Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

 

 

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is an art gallery near the Prado Museum in Madrid. It is known as a part of the "Golden Triangle of Art", which also includes the Prado Museum and the Reina Sofia galleries.

The Thyssen-Bornemisza fills the historical gaps in its counterparts' collections: in the Prado's case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools. The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, the second largest private collection in the World after the one of the Queen of Great Britain, includes impressionists, expressionists, European and American paintings from the second half of the 20th century, with over 1,600 paintings..

The collection

One of the focal points is the early European painting, with a major collection of trecento and quattrocento (i.e. 14th and 15th century) Italian paintings by Duccio, and his contemporaries, and works of the early Flemish and Dutch painters like Jan Van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, and Hans Holbein. Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and wonderful portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio. Also important for the Museum's collection are Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by artists like Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh, as well as twentieth century masterpieces like a Cubist work by Picasso or late works by Piet Mondrian and Edward Hopper.

A collection of works from the museum are housed in Barcelona in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

In July and August don't miss the rooftop restaurant and bar of the Museum: El Mirador

Ciclo conferencias Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza: Claude Monet. "La casa entre las rosas" from museothyssen on Vimeo.

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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino
to see!! (20 Dec 2010 - 12:00)
For the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The 54 images in the exhibition focus on both his activities as a fashion photographer (including photographs taken for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face)... to see..Till 9/01/2011

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The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid Spain

Address : Paseo del Prado, 8
Zip code : 28014
City : Madrid - Spain
Area : Centro
Email : mtbSPAMFILTER@museothyssen.org
Website : Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza - Madrid
Opening hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm. Closed Mondays. The ticket office closes at 6:30pm. The Museum is closed on January 1, May 1 and December 25.
Prices : Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection General 6.00 € / Reduced 4.00 € (Senior Citizens (over 65) and Students with ID) / FREE Under 12s accompanied by an adult
Phone : +34 91 369 01 51
Phone 2 : Fax: +34 91 420 27 80
Metro/Bus : Bus1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 20, 27, 34, 37, 45, 51, 52, 53, 74, 146, 150. Trains: Atocha - Recoletos

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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino
- to see!!
(20 Dec 2010 - 12:00)
For the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The 54 images in the exhibition focus on both his activities as a fashion photographer (including photographs taken for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face)... to see..Till 9/01/2011
Ghirlandaio au Prado
- jm
(13 Jul 2010 - 12:00)
A voir effectivement cette magnifique exposition sur Ghirlandaio et la Renaissance à Florence. C'est au Musée du Prado jusqu'à la mi-octobre 2010. Vraiment extraordinaire!
Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence from 23 June
- Quattrocento
(23 Jun 2010 - 13:45)
From 23 June to 10 October 2010 visit the new exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum called Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence.
The exhibition offers a unique survey of Quattrocento Florentine art whose starting-point is one of the great paintings in the Museum’s collection, the Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni....
great!!
PRADO
- Wovan
(17 Jun 2010 - 18:00)
¡Hermosura!
sunny museum
- gladys
(16 Jun 2010 - 14:15)
Glad I could find information on madrid.com because their website is always down?? not the first time I try. Love the Thyssen because the place is really nice, you can have drink at the cafe. Interresting collection.
Thyssen is one of the big 3 museums of Madrid
- telma
(15 Jun 2010 - 15:15)
Thyssen is one of the big 3 museums of Madrid along with Prado and Queen Sofia... you should absolutly visit both... great time
Monet and Abstraction at Thyssen..
- peter
(19 May 2010 - 10:30)
Beautiful exhibition at Thyssen till end of May. Monet y la abstraccion that is "Monet and Abstraction" that re-examines the work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet in the light of his crucial role in the development of Abstract Expressionism..

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