Twenty-five highlights from the famous Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in Madrid will come to the Mauritshuis. The exhibition Thyssen-Bornemisza ❤️ Mauritshuis - Masterpieces from Madrid includes masterpieces by world famous painters, from Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden to El Greco, Antonello da Messina Bronzino and Michael Sweerts.
The selection focuses on paintings with people in the leading role: from biblical and mythological scenes to a wide variety of the most beautiful portraits. This unique exhibition will include Italian, Spanish, German and Flemish paintings from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, thus showing the international context of the Mauritshuis’s own Dutch collection.
Highlights
Reunited...
..and it feels so good!
One of the twenty-five paintings from Madrid will be integrated into the museum’s permanent collection during the exhibition: Sebastiano del Piombo’s Portrait of Ferry Carondelet and his Secretaries. In our painting Apelles Painting Campaspe by Willem van Haecht, this exact portrait from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection can be seen depicted in minute detail as one of the many paintings within a majestic art collection. These two works have never before been displayed side-by-side.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Another striking pair features Michael Sweerts’s Boy in a Turban from Madrid and Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
With their shared color palette and thematic resonance, they truly form a dynamic duo. While these masterpieces won't be displayed right next to each other, they will engage in a fascinating dialogue in their own unique way.
