Hello, everyone.
In these our last few days we walked over to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, a really wonderful art museum in Madrid, and also to the Museo Arqueologico Nacional, a cultural-historical museum. We have visited both of these before. We discovered that the art collections at the Thyssen have been rotated and that part of the MAN is undergoing "obras" and not on display now.
This painting of the Visitation (second joyful mystery of the rosary) is unusual in showing the developing babies in their wombs.
There were a lot of Dutch paintings on display, but most of the beautiful still lifes that I remember and liked were not on display. My personal favorite, Christus Resurrexit, was still there and it was interesting to reflect on the difference between the actual, huge, painting and my somewhat smaller print. The real one just glows more.
I learned that ostrich eggs were a thing with the ancient Phoenician colonists, that built ports in Hispania in the centuries before Rome moved into the peninsula in a big way.
We didn't spend tons of time in the MAN this time, as it was late in the day, but it was interesting and educational.
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