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Record-breaking year for Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum ahead of new Renaissance, Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec collections
07/01/2017
OVER a million people have visited Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum so far this year – the third-highest figure in the centre's history.
One of the capital's 'big three' art galleries, along with the Reina Sofía and the El Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza has seen an impressive 10% rise in visitor numbers based upon figures for 2015.
Those viewing the permanent art collections went up by 28%, to a total of 606,576 from the previous year's 474,199.
Temporary exhibitions have also seen visitor numbers shooting up, with Realists of Madrid being the most popular, attracting 188,980 people, closely followed by Renoir: Intimacy, at 153,875, and which is still open until January 22 this year.
Caravaggio and the painters of the north was seen by 144,733 people; Caillebotte, painter and gardener by 95,127; Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the studio attracted 66,724 viewers; and Bulgari and Rome, which remains open until February 26 this year, has been seen by 27,498 so far.
Since February 2016, the museum has offered a single flat-rate entry ticket which allows visitors into both permanent and temporary collections, meaning the total of over a million mostly relates to numbers of tickets bought – at least for the last 11 months of the year.
Visitor numbers to temporary exhibitions are calculated from the security barriers at the entrance to the rooms they are held in.
This year, 2017, will bring a bumper Renaissance fest plus exhibitions of the works of Picasso (example pictured above).
Masters of Budapest from the Renaissance to the Avant-Garde will kick off a New Year marking the Thyssen-Bornemisza's 25th anniversary, and a few weeks later will follow up with Rafael Moneo: A theoretical reflection of his profession. Archive materials 1961-2013, which documents the works of the famous architect who was in charge of renovating the Villahermosa Palace, the building which houses the art museum.
Summer will bring more Renaissance works, with a homage to this period of great artistic and literary splendour, free thinking, philosophy, social change, religious reformation and the foundation of the modern education system.
The Renaissance in Venice: Triumph of beauty and destruction of painting shows art from the north-eastern water-borne Italian city from the 16th century, and is followed up by a journey to more modern times with Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Art, design and fashion, showing the works of this multidisciplinary artist over the period she and her family lived in Madrid.
For October, the Picasso/Lautrec exhibition will see a combination of the early work of Málaga-born cubist Pablo Picasso – works which were not cubist at all, but adhered more to the romantic and realist movements, especially in the case of his 'blue era' – and France's national icon Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Next up is Art lesson, an exhibition organised by the regional education authorities for teaching students from infant school to post-graduates about art.
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OVER a million people have visited Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum so far this year – the third-highest figure in the centre's history.
One of the capital's 'big three' art galleries, along with the Reina Sofía and the El Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza has seen an impressive 10% rise in visitor numbers based upon figures for 2015.
Those viewing the permanent art collections went up by 28%, to a total of 606,576 from the previous year's 474,199.
Temporary exhibitions have also seen visitor numbers shooting up, with Realists of Madrid being the most popular, attracting 188,980 people, closely followed by Renoir: Intimacy, at 153,875, and which is still open until January 22 this year.
Caravaggio and the painters of the north was seen by 144,733 people; Caillebotte, painter and gardener by 95,127; Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the studio attracted 66,724 viewers; and Bulgari and Rome, which remains open until February 26 this year, has been seen by 27,498 so far.
Since February 2016, the museum has offered a single flat-rate entry ticket which allows visitors into both permanent and temporary collections, meaning the total of over a million mostly relates to numbers of tickets bought – at least for the last 11 months of the year.
Visitor numbers to temporary exhibitions are calculated from the security barriers at the entrance to the rooms they are held in.
This year, 2017, will bring a bumper Renaissance fest plus exhibitions of the works of Picasso (example pictured above).
Masters of Budapest from the Renaissance to the Avant-Garde will kick off a New Year marking the Thyssen-Bornemisza's 25th anniversary, and a few weeks later will follow up with Rafael Moneo: A theoretical reflection of his profession. Archive materials 1961-2013, which documents the works of the famous architect who was in charge of renovating the Villahermosa Palace, the building which houses the art museum.
Summer will bring more Renaissance works, with a homage to this period of great artistic and literary splendour, free thinking, philosophy, social change, religious reformation and the foundation of the modern education system.
The Renaissance in Venice: Triumph of beauty and destruction of painting shows art from the north-eastern water-borne Italian city from the 16th century, and is followed up by a journey to more modern times with Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Art, design and fashion, showing the works of this multidisciplinary artist over the period she and her family lived in Madrid.
For October, the Picasso/Lautrec exhibition will see a combination of the early work of Málaga-born cubist Pablo Picasso – works which were not cubist at all, but adhered more to the romantic and realist movements, especially in the case of his 'blue era' – and France's national icon Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Next up is Art lesson, an exhibition organised by the regional education authorities for teaching students from infant school to post-graduates about art.
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