THYSSEN MUSEUM
PLAZA DE NEPTUNO
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Before focusing on the museum, however, I'd like to show you a beautiful square in this area: it's Plaza Cánovas del Castillo, and it's dedicated to a Spanish politician who was assassinated...
INTRODUCTION
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And now you can finally enter the Thyssen museum, which together with the Centro Reina Sofia and the Prado form the so-called "golden triangle" of Madrid's great museums, and are all within...
CARAVAGGIO
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You're now looking at one of the most intense paintings in the museum, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which was painted by Caravaggio in Rome shortly before the year 1600. With this work Caravaggio...
ANCIENT PAINTING
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Your guided tour starts from the second floor, where you'll see works arranged in chronological order that pass from the 1200s to the 1700s. Among the many masterpieces, I'll limit myself to the most...
MODERN PAINTING
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The Thyssen Museum's itinerary now leads you down to the first floor, which is dedicated to eighteenth and nineteenth-century painting.
Start with the works of Goya, move on to see works by the...
