Museum Thyssen is a great addition to the collections of its neighbors in the Triangle :in contrast to the Prado , it presents the work of Italian primitives and painters English, Dutch and German schools , in contrast to the Arts Centre Thyssen collection includes impressionists, expressionists , and European and American paintings of the second half of XX century:
Thyssen Museum - Art Museum near the Prado Museum in Madrid. He is known as the Golden Triangle of Art, which also includes the Prado and Reina Sofia Museum .
A collection of paintings went to Spain in hard competition with other countries , initially for a period of nine and a half years, but now it will remain in Spain.Lion's share of the meeting of Baron Heinrich von Thyssen- Bornemisza , which was considered the largest private collections in the world after the collection of Queen Elizabeth , has acquired the Spanish government for 44 100 000 000 pesetas (232 million pounds ).
Paintings by old masters took on senior Baron Hans Thyssen -Bornemisza preferred paintings of the XIX and XX centuries.Currently, the museum's collection covers eight centuries of European painting, without claiming completeness of its coverage , but rather outlining its main focus . A central place to hold a meeting early European masters : a large collection trecento and Quattrocento (XIV and XV centuries.), Works by Italian artists - Duccio and his contemporaries , the works of early Flemish, Dutch and German masters like Jan van Eyck , Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein . The collection of well- known artists represented by the Renaissance and Baroque, including Rubens , Titian, and a magnificent portrait by Domenico Ghirlandaio.Serious Section museum are paintings of Impressionist and Post- Impressionists - Monet , Renoir, Augusta , Vincent van Gogh , and masterpieces of XX century. - Cubist work of Picasso and Piet Mondrian later work .Is also quite unique collection of North American paintings of the XIX century , virtually unknown in Europe and in the museum occupies four rooms .
Some of his works from the museum collection on display at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona .
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