The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Spanish), is one of the three Madrid museums that make up the “Golden Triangle of Art”, which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofia (modern and contemporary) galleries. The collections
See Nero and Seneca by Eduardo Barrón "Converse" at the Prado Museum
MADRID.- Visitors of the The Prado are able to contemplate the sculptural group Nero and Seneca (Eduardo Barrón, 1904) in room 74 and admire the result of the study and restoration process undertaken on the piece by the restoration department in coord…
National Gallery Opens Exhibition by One of the Most Versatile Artists of the Renaissance
LONDON.- Jan Gossaert (active 1503; died 1532) was one of the most startling and versatile artists of the Northern Renaissance. A pivotal Old Master, Gossaert changed the course of Flemish art, going beyond the tradition of Jan van Eyck and charting ne…
Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve Returns to Public Display at the Prado Museum
MADRID.- The Museum is once again displaying the magnificent pair of paintings of Adam and Eve (1507) by Albrecht Dürer, following two years of intensive restoration to their pictorial surfaces and supports. The work on the two panels has benefited fr…
Spanish Minister of Culture Confirms Acquisition of Painting by Bruegel the Elder for the Prado
MADRID.- The Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, today presided over a plenary session of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado in which it was unanimously decided to exercise the option to purchase The Wine of Saint Martin’…
More than a Century After He Visited Madrid’s Prado Museum, Pierre-Auguste Renoir Returns
MADRID.- The artistic career of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), one of the leading figures of Impressionism, is characterised by an all-absorbing passion for painting that led him to achieve great renown and popularity among his contemporaries. The …
Sotheby’s to Sell Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, Gift from the Artist to his Doctor
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, the most significant painting by the British artist to appear at auction in several seasons, in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 November 2010 in New York. …
Sotheby’s to Sell Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, Gift from the Artist to his Doctor
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, the most significant painting by the British artist to appear at auction in several seasons, in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 November 2010 in New York. …
SMU’s Meadows and Prado Museum Officials Sign Partnership Agreement in Madrid
MADRID.- This past week. 46 Dallasites, including Mayor Tom Leppert, gathered in Madrid to witness the official signing of a partnership agreement between the The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University and the Prado Museum in Madrid. The signi…
For the First Time Ever, The Museo del Prado Exhibits Treasures from Its Library
MADRID.- The exhibition is organized into three sections. The first, Bibliotheca artis (Library of Art), is the most important, featuring major works from the European literature on art, starting with the great treatises of the Italian Renaissance. On …