Essential Museums in Spain

ESSENTIAL MUSEUMS IN SPAIN

a MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BILBAO

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BILBAO It is located just 10 minutes walk from the Guggenheim Museum, next to Doña Casilda Park. With more than a hundred years of history, this museum welco mes its visitors in a renovated building, which combines its traditional architec ture with the modern equipment of con temporary museums. Its rooms hold representative works of the main authors, styles and schools of Western art. You will be surprised by the list of masters you can find: El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo, Zuloaga, Goya, So

rolla, Gauguin, Francis Bacon, Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Miquel Barceló and Richard Serra are just some of the names, among many others. You will be able to admire countless pie ces, from the characteristic elongated figures and colours of El Greco in An nunciation , to the virtuosity of Zuloaga with the Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles , to a magnificent Lucretia by Lucas Cranach the Elder or still life by Miquel Barceló Des potirons (Pum pkins).

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