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The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is located within the so-called Triangulo del Arte - the Golden Triangle of Art, a small area in which several large museums are located, in including the famous Prado Museum and the Queen Sofia Museum.

Like many other museums in this area, the Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibition offers visitors a large collection of paintings, in which there are many works of the most famous artists covering the period of 8 centuries.

Named Museum in ches s creators, collectors - father and son Thyssens, holders of Hungarian Baron Bornemisza. In 1992, the son moved the collection from Switzerland to Spain and placed in this museum, specially built for it, and then it was bought by the Spanish government. At that time it was one of the largest private collections in the world.

Later art trends are represented by Picasso, Kandinsky, Salvador Dali and Mark Chagall

Exposition

The collection consists of four parts.

The largest part combines pictures of a brush of old masters. There are very old canvases - the 13th and 14th centuries of the work of Italian masters, there is an early Dutch and Flemish painting, the works of Lucas Cranach the elder, Memling and Holbein

The second part of the exposition combines works of the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods. There are pictures of Titian (including one of his famous "Madonna"), Veronese and Tintoretto, Rubens, Rembrandt's Self-Portrait, Gainsborough's paintings and many others.

The third part of the collection is Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. The exposition is absolutely magnificent: here you can find 5 paintings by Claude Monet, 2 works by Cezanne, paintings by Renoir, one of Degas' Balletines, 5 works by Van Gogh and paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec.

Later art trends are represented by Picasso's paintings (8 canvases) , Kandinsky, Salvador Dali (here the famous painting "Sleep caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before awakening") and Marc Chagall.

The fourth section is devoted to the little-known Russian art of American artists of the late 19th - early 20th century, including American impressionism Stam. The collection is very impressive, there are works by Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein

The museum hosts many temporary exhibitions of the appropriate level. There are also collections of classical painting, but more often it is an exhibition of contemporary art.

A magnificent large collection, one of the best in Spain, many wonderful paintings, all of us familiar with reproductions. You can walk very, very long, there are simply no uninteresting paintings. The exuberance of early painting (it is usually very rare in expositions, is usually very rare) and a large collection of impressionist paintings
Exposition of Surrealist Artists at the Thyssen-Bornemisy Museum

Practical information

Address: Madrid, Paseo del Prado , 8, Palacio de Villahermosa, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

You can get here by metro - near the station Banco de Espana.

Working time: for a permanent collection - on Monday from 12:00 to 16:00, in other days from 10:00 to 19:00.

It is worth noting that the working time of temporary exhibitions is different and usually its own for each exhibition. You can specify the time on the museum's website

Ticket price: 10 EUR (for the autumn of 2014), for temporary exhibitions you have to buy tickets separately.