Art Galleries

What is the largest art gallery in Spain?
The Prado is now the largest art museum in Spain. The Prado has a very large collection of Old Masters. These include the artists Velazquez, Goya, Murillo, Durer, El Greco, Bosch, Rubens, Fra Angelico, David, Zurbaran, Raphael, Titian, Ribera, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt.
Reina Sofía, Madrid
Madrid’s museum of contemporary art, named after the former Spanish queen, was opened in 1992 and includes many works by 20th-century Spanish artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The highlight for most is Guernica, Picasso’s powerful depiction of the bombing of the Basque town of the same name during the Spanish Civil War. The gallery also features the work of many international artists, including Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst, Paul Klee, Mark Rothko and Diego Rivera.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
The third museum (along with the Prado and the Reina Sofia) in Madrid’s ‘Golden Triangle’ of art galleries, the Thyssen-Bornemisza started as the private collection of Heinrich Thyssen, a German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector, who brought many European works back to the continent having acquired them from American millionaires struggling during the Great Depression. The collection was later expanded by his son, who, when he married Spaniard Carmen Cervera in 1985, moved the majority of the collection to Spain. The Thyssen-Bornemisza museum opened in 1992 and today, its collection spans eight centuries of painting. Works include those by Caravaggio, Rubens and Rembrandt, impressionist pieces by Monet, Renoir and Degas, and modernist works by Kandinsky, Edward Hopper and
Picasso Museum, Barcelona
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona houses one of the most complete permanent collections of the Spanish artist’s works, with a particular focus on his early years. The museum, which opened in 1963, is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces in the La Ribera area of the city. Its permanent collection features Picasso’s early major works The First Communion (1896) and Science and Charity (1897) The works are split into different areas, including the early years, training, the Blue Period, works focusing on Barcelona and Las Meninas, Picasso’s series reinterpreting Veláquez’s famous work.
 

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