THYSSEN MUSEUM, Ancient Painting
- Audio File length: 3.03
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
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 important ones in the order they appear along this path. In the first part you'll mostly see Italian painters, but as you go on you'll see more works from the Flemish, German, and even Spanish masters.
Near the beginning, don't miss the refined panel by Duccio di Buoninsegna, the elegant Tuscan painter of the early 1300s: his panel with Christ and the Samaritan woman was once part of the great pictorial complex called "Majesty" located at the altar of Siena's Cathedral. The Annunciation is depicted in a beautiful and precious fashion by Jan van Eyck, the founder of the Flemish school of the 1400s, with the angel and the Virgin Mary painted in shades of gray almost as if they were fake statues....