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Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Caravaggio · 1598

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Madrid · Founded 1992

A private collection that fills the gaps in the Prado and the Reina Sofia, from medieval panels to Pop. It completes the Golden Triangle with the Prado and the Reina Sofía, a few minutes’ walk from both.

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1992
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Caravaggio · 1598

Saint Catherine of Alexandria is an oil painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, from c. 1593. It is held at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid.

Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni
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Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni

Domenico Ghirlandaio · 1489–1490

The Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (also known as Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, executed in 1488 and located in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. The portrait was commissioned by Lorenzo Tornabuoni after his wife's death in 1488 and includes many symbolic details.

Christ Among the Doctors
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Christ Among the Doctors

Albrecht Dürer · 1506

Christ among the Doctors is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1506, now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. The work belongs to the time of Dürer's sojourn in Italy, and was according to its inscription executed incidentally in five days while he was working on the Feast of the Rosary altarpiece in Venice. The work was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci and possibly based on the most probably earlier painting by Cima da Conegliano on the same theme.

Girl at Sewing Machine

Girl at Sewing Machine

Edward Hopper, 1921. Girl at Sewing Machine is an oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper, executed in 1921, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain. It portrays a young woman sitting at a sewing machine facing a window on a beautiful sunny day.

Pietà
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Pietà

Jusepe de Ribera · 1633

The Pietà is an oil on canvas painting by José de Ribera, "The Españoleto", painted, signed and dated in 1633.

Madonna of Humility

Madonna of Humility

The collections

The Old Masters were mainly bought by the elder Baron, while Hans focused more on the 19th and 20th century, resulting in a collection that spans eight centuries of European painting, without claiming to give an all-encompassing view but rather a series of highlights. One of the focal points is the early European painting, with a major collection of trecento and quattrocento (i.e. Other highlights include works by leading Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Francesco del Cossa, Bramantino (Christus Dolens), Fra Bartolomeo, Giulio Romano, Giovanni Bellini, Palma il Vecchio, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Jacopo Bassano, Sebastiano del Piombo (Portrait of Ferry Carondelet), Bernardino Luini, Agnolo Bronzino, Domenico Beccafumi, Albrecht Dürer (Christ among the Doctors), Hans Baldung Grien, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein (Portrait of Henry VIII), Albrecht Altdorfer, El Greco, Caravaggio (Saint Catherine), Guercino, Sebastiano Ricci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt, Frans Hals (Family Portrait in a Landscape), Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Tiepolo, Giambattista Pittoni, Watteau, François Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Gainsborough and Pompeo Batoni, as well as two famous portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Giovanna Tornabuoni) and Vittore Carpaccio (Knight in a landscape). The Museum houses a display of North American paintings from 18th and 19th centuries, including works by Copley, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent. The display of the European 19th century starts with works by Francisco Goya, Thomas Lawrence, Delacroix, Géricault, Corot and Courbet.

Artists

Abandoned boat

Frederic Edwin Church

American · 1826–1900 · Hudson River school

Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often de

Mourning madonna

El Greco

Greek · 1541–1614 · Spanish Renaissance

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.

Landscape at Dusk

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch · 1853–1890 · Post-impressionism

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

Portrait of Doge Francesco Venier

Titian

Italian · 1488–1576 · Venetian school

Tiziano Vecellio, Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.

In the Bright Oval

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian Empire · 1866–1944

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras.

The Nymph at the Fountain

Lucas Cranach the Elder

German · 1472–1553 · German Renaissance

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German prin

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Artworks

Portrait of Madame Bouret as Diana
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Portrait of Madame Bouret as Diana

Jean-Marc Nattier · 1745

The Annunciation
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The Annunciation

El Greco · 1576

Soldiers Playing Dice
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Soldiers Playing Dice

Michiel Sweerts · 1655

David With the Head of Goliath and two Soldiers
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David With the Head of Goliath and two Soldiers

Valentin de Boulogne · 1620

Christ and the Samaritan Woman
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Christ and the Samaritan Woman

Duccio di Buoninsegna · 1310

Sacred conversation
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Sacred conversation

Giovanni Bellini · 1507

Annunciation
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Annunciation

Jan van Eyck · 1440

Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Young Saint John
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Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Young Saint John

Peter Paul Rubens · 1618

Swaying Dancer
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Swaying Dancer

Edgar Degas · 1877

Plan your visit

Winter hours

Monday noon to 4pm. Tuesday to Friday and Sunday, 10am to 7pm. Saturday 10am to 11pm. Summer hours: Monday noon to 4pm. Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 9pm. Saturday 10am to 11pm. Sunday 10am to 7pm. Confirm on www.museothyssen.org before you travel.

Admission

€14 for the collections and the temporary exhibitions.

Getting there

P.º del Prado, 8.

On their own site

Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.

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The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor
The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor · Palma Vecchio