My favorite museum in Madrid (if not anywhere) is the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
Named after its founder, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. It is known as part of the “Golden Triangle of Art”, which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofía national galleries. With over 1,600 paintings, it was once the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection.
The collection goes historically from the Medieval and Renaissance through Impressionism to modern.
Going through it I found that it gave one a sense of the development of art and how we humans have seen the world over time. From the very particular to the abstract and from the image as a symbol- to the image as just an image without signifying any thing beyond its surface. Not sure if that is good or bad but it is what has happened.
Portrait of Henry VIII. Holbein
Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Ghirlandaio 1489
Portrait of Ursula Rudolph- Barthel Beham 1528
Above below Derick Baegert 1477
Portrait of a Stout Man-Robert Campion 1425
Canaletto The Plaza of San Marcos in Venice 1723
Below The Museum has distinct salmon colored walls chosen by Carmen Thyssen
Self Portrait-Rembrandt 1642
Portrait of Ascensio Julia by Goya 1798
Easter Morning-Caspat David Friedrich 1830
Fishermen of the Coast of Labrador – William Bradford undated
Windmill near Delft- Johan Barthold Jongkind 1857
Girl in Japanese Gown -William Merritt Chase 1887
Dancer in Green Degas-1878
Yvette Guilbert-Toulouse Lautrec 1893
The Water Stream -Courbet 1866
Les Vessenots in Auvers-Van Gogh 1890
Child with Doll-Jawlensky 1910
The Bathers-Pechstein 1912
Blue Nude- Larionov 1908
Around The Line- Kandinsky 1943
Picture With Three Spots- Kandinsky 1914
Nude- Chagall 1914
Bathers On a Beach- Walt Kuhn 1915
Bagatelle No 2- Kandinsky 1915
Revolving House-Klee 1921
Harlequin with Mirror-Picasso 1923
Hotel Room- Hopper 1931
From The Plains II-Okeefe 1954
New York Street With Moon- O Keefe-1925
Telephone Booths- Estes 1932
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A small museum I discovered was The Museum del Romanticisimo. An 18th-century palace with more than 20 rooms filled with interesting period artifacts from paintings and decorative arts, to furniture and sculptures.
Water colors by Italian artist Luis de Madrazo 1825 to 1897
