Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Passing diagonally through Neptune Square and reaching the corner of Prado Boulevard and Spanish Parliament Street San Jeronimo, the search for the second museum in the Golden Triangle of Art, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, was successful. It is housed in the Villagerosa Palace, a model of 18th-century neoclassical architecture.
The story goes that the founders of the museum were the German barons Thyssen Bornemisza. The original and modest collection of works was collected by Baron Heinrich, their father, as early as 1920. His son Hans Heinrin, married to the beautiful Spaniard Carmen Servera, whose collection of landscapes was added to the museum in 2004, is working on the gallery.
To view the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in chronological order, it is advisable to start with the second floor, which is dedicated to works of medieval art. Italian primitives, including Ducho di Buoninsen with Christ and the Samaritan, the black-and-white diptych Annunciation by Jan Van Eyck, and the Virgin Mary with the Infant by Rogier van der Weiden with astonishing details from early Flemish art, "Portrait of Giovanni Tornabuoni" by Domenico Garlandaio, the masterful and often reproduced image of the smug English King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein, the admirable "Portrait of the Infanta" by Catherine of Aragon, "Portrait of a Young Man" by Raphael, large-format Renaissance maps with the Infant and Little St. John by Bernardino Luini, "A Young Knight Against a Landscape" by Vitore Carpaccio in a mixed style, combining naturalistic and stylized Gothic elements - all recognized masterpieces, emblems of the style in which they were created.
"Jesus among the Scribes" by Albrecht Dürer, "Resting Nymph" by Lucas Cranech the Elder are some of the productions in the collection of the German school at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum. The Venetian school is also well represented - El Greco, Titian, Tintoretto and Basano. The works of Barnini and Caravaggio were chosen to show the world the early Baroque.
Following the chronology of the creative periods on the first floor are the painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The great impressionists are Manet, Monet, Renoir with "Woman with an Umbrella", "Dressing Mirror" by Bert Morisot, "Rotating Dancer" by Degas. Paintings by Gauguin, Degas, Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec prove the importance of Post-Impressionism. Adding Cézanne to the rich collection of works clearly emphasizes the influence on the path of Cubism of Braque and Picasso in the early twentieth century.
Expressionists Schmidt Rothluff, Munch, Hen, Nolde, Schiele and Beckmann are all here, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is particularly well represented with "Bay" and "Alpine Cuisine" at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. There is also Picasso with "The Man with the Clarinet", "Harlequin with the Mirror" and a number of other boards from different periods of the "artist of the twentieth century", not missing his surrealist friends Joan Miro and El Salvador and abstractionist Kandinsky. In the section with early baroque works a prominent place is occupied by the suffering sculptures "St. Sebastian" and "Pieta" by Bernini. Among the artists are Luca Giordano with "The Wisdom of Solomon", Francisco Surbaran with "St. Casilda" and the bright cityscapes of Venice and the Canaletto.
Flemish and Dutch sails are by Van Dyck, Bruges. Rubens with his magnificent Venus and Cupid and Rembrandt's penetrating Self-Portrait can also be seen in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. From Dutch art to English and American artists such as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsbrough, European Romanticism with Goya, Jericho and Dulacroix. Followed by Courbet and Constable, from Franz Mark and Vasily Kandinsky to post-war figurative art and pop art, from Cubism /Marriage, Juan Gris, Picasso/ to Futurism, Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism - indisputable evidence that nothing seems to be missed, that some current art should not be represented.
Currently, the museum's cultural wealth is measured by 1,600 works, of which more than 50 are world-renowned masterpieces under the supervision of the Spanish Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza. With them, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has been turned into a colorful cradle of art from the 13th century to the present day.