El Museo de arte Thyssen-Bornemisza - (Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid-España)

Berthe Morisot: The Woman Impressionist
Chagall
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Berthe Morisot

Organized by Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza with the collaboration of Musée Marmottan Paris

15 November 2011 to 12 February 2012

Author:: Berthe Morisot
Title:: At the ball (detail)
Date:: 1875

Technical:: Oil on canvas
Measures:: 62 x 52 cm
Location:: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

Chagall

Organised by Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Caja Madrid Foundation

From 14 February to 20 May 2012

Author:: Marc Chagall
Title:: The Blue Circus (Le cirque bleu)
Date:: 1950-52

Technical:: Oil on linen canvas
Measures:: 232.5 x 175.8 cm.
Location:: Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Dation 1988.; © VEGAP, Madrid 2012. - Chagall ®

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Mondrian, De Stijl and Dutch artistic tradition

New displays of the collections

From 7 February to 6 May 2012

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Vittore Carpaccio: Young Knight in a Landscape
with Guillermo Solana
01 June 2009

Young Knight in a Landscape is one of the earliest examples of a full-length portrait in European painting. The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was attributed to Dürer until 1919. A number of hypotheses have been advanced regarding the identity of the figure. The motto Malo mori quam foedari (better to die than be defiled) placed beside a short-tailed weasel suggests that he may be a knight of the Order of the Ermine. The most widely-accepted view, however, is that the knight was in fact Francesco Maria della Rovere, 3rd Duke of Urbino. There is something rather troubling about both the young knight, dressed in armour and about to unsheathe his sword, and the landscape in which he is placed, with its meticulously-executed flora and fauna containing allusions to good and evil.