Three people admire Canaletto’s painting “The Piazza San Marco in Venice”. Next to them hangs another painting by the same artist: “The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice”.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum has a permanent collection that traces the history of European painting from the Middle Ages through to the late 20th century. Its superb and varied collection includes more than 1,000 artworks, with the most represented schools and movements being the Italian Primitives, the German Renaissance, 19th-century American painting, Impressionism, German Expressionism and Russian Constructivism.