Until 9 January 2022, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is presenting ten works of Italian painting from the 14th to the 18th centuries from the private collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
When the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum opened in 1992, an important and representative section of almost 80 works from the Italian and German schools was deposited for exhibition at the Pedralbes Monastery in Barcelona, thanks to an agreement signed by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and the city’s mayor, Pasqual Maragall. In 2004, the collection was transferred to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Cataluyna (MNAC), where it is still on display today. Coinciding with the commemoration in 2021 of the centenary of the Baron’s birth, ten of these works are temporarily on display in Madrid, where panels and canvases by artists such as Taddeo Gaddi, Giambatista Piazzetta and Giacomo Ceruti can be seen in the antique painting rooms of the permanent collection. The selection includes Fra Angelico’s The Virgin of Humility, one of the masterpieces in the Thyssen collection that has only been on view twice in the museum, in 2006 and 2009.
