Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza has placed in Malaga, for free, an important collection of paintings from his collection. It is over two hundred pieces, among which are some great masters such as Zurbarán and Della Robbia, and a broad set historical discourse around gender who starred in the history of Spanish painting from the nineteenth century works  Julio Romero de Torres, Mariano Fortuny or Domínguez Bécquer. 
 

It has done so in an enclave of the city of Málaga with a distinctly Renaissance, which sits on the ancient Roman city and integrated into the urban fabric Muslim: Palacio de Villalón.  Formerly known as Palacio Mosquera, this building, dating from the mid sixteenth century, has become for its new museum functions. During the transformation, they have recovered the Renaissance façade of the palace, the tower of the church of Santo Cristo de la Salud adjacent to the main building, a small tower and the hidden "algorfa". All through a synthesis of architectural languages ​​in which the modernity of the new use and coexists with the classic space.  

As well as the the old masters such as Zurbarán and Della Robbia, stays together with nineteenth-century romantic landscape. Works by Genaro Pérez Villamil works Manuel Barron give the witness, in the museum discourse, to the Andalusian genre painting of the Domínguez Bécquer and Manuel Cabral Aguado Bejarano. A portrait of the most authentic Spanish ways that reach up to the outbreak of the precious painting from the hand of Mariano Fortuny. Just as the landscape genre ranges from first-century from romanticism to realism. Finally, Darío de Regoyos, Joaquín Sorolla, Hermen Anglada Camarasa, Ignacio Zuloaga and Francisco Iturrino exemplify the integration of Spanish art in the international circuit.

Since last Friday, March 25, the Museo Carmen Thyssen Malaga, located in Compañía Street number 10, opened its doors to the public with visiting hours from 10.00 to 19.30. Alejandro Martínez

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