THYSSEN MUSEUM, Modern Painting

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 German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich and the French artists Delacroix and Courbet, and you'll soon reach one of the most crowded parts of the museum, that of the Parisian Impressionists. It includes the exquisite Woman with an Umbrella by Renoir, the unmistakable Ballerina Catching her Balance by Degas, the delicate Girl in the Mirror by the sensitive painter Berthe Morisot. I'd also like to point out the refined, aristocratic Horsewoman by Edouard Manet.

From Van Gogh to Toulouse Lautrec, from Gauguin to Cézanne, all the protagonists of late 19th-century French painting are represented here with important works, and set the stage for the avant-garde movement. An extraordinary selection of works from the German art movements just before World War I reminds you of the Thyssen family's origins.

Now pause the audio and go down to the ground floor....