Guided Visit to the Thyssen Museum: "Life's Pleasures"

The selection of paintings on this tour highlights some of those great little moments in life captured in figures that feature in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza’s collections. Many of these moments are linked to leisure pursuits or celebrations where diversions – either planned or spontaneous – are a welcome break from routine, and provide enjoyment and happiness.
Among these pleasures, music has a special place, featuring on the canvases of artists like Bologna’s Giuseppe Maria Crespi, where it reveals the refined tastes of the sitter, or of Johan Zoffany, where it livens up a family party. Music, poetry, courtship and theatre, all out of doors, are the choices of Jean-Antoine Watteau for his garden gathering. Play is another common pastime shown, represented on this itinerary by the singular game of cards depicted by Lucas van Leyden

 

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