Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

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The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum ( Museo de Bellas Artes in Spanish) is located in the city of Bilbao, in northern Spain, and is currently one of the main painting and sculpture museums of Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely insde the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park.

Contents 1 History 2 Collection 2.1 Essential works 3 External links

[edit] History

The collection of the present Bilbao Fine Arts Museum originated with the merger of the collections from the first Museo de Bellas Artes, inaugurated in 1914, and the Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art) in 1924. Contributions from local institutions, from private individuals and the Museum's own acquisitions helped to shape the essential profile of the collection and oriented its subsequent growth.

[edit] Collection

Notable for the lengthy period it covers (from the 12th century to the present day) and the extraordinary variety of art works acquired since its inception, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum collection currently boasts more than six thousand works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and objects from the decorative arts.

[edit] Essential works

• Adolfo Guiard

Village Girl with Red Carnation - c. 1903

• Alberto Sánchez

Figures in a Landscape - c. 1960-1962

• Ambrosius Benson

Pietà at the Foot of the Cross, (fragment) - c. 1530

• Anonymous, Catalan

Descent and The Flood or Noah's Ark - last third of 13th century

• Anton Van Dyck

Lamentation over the Dead Christ - c. 1634-1640

• Antoni Tàpies

Great Oval or Painting - c. 1955

• Antonis Mor (Anthonis van Dashort)

Portrait of Philip II - c. 1549-1550

• Aurelio Arteta

The Bridge at Burceña - c. 1925-1930

• Bartolomé Bermejo

Flagellation of Saint Engracia - c. 1474-1478

• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

St. Lesmes - c. 1655

• Bernardo Bellotto

Landscape with Palace or Architectural Capriccio with Palace - c. 1765-1766

• Darío de Regoyos

Bathing in Rentería. Soir Eléctrique - c. 1899

• Diego de la Cruz

Christ of Pity - c. 1485

• Eduardo Chillida

Around the Vacuum I - c. 1964

• El Greco (Domenikos Theotokópoulos)

The Annunciation - c. 1596-1600

• Francis Bacon

Lying Figure in Mirror - c. 1971

• Francisco de Goya

Portrait of Martín Zapater - c. 1797

• Francisco de Zurbarán

The Virgin with the Child Jesus and the Child St. John - c. 1662

• Francisco Durrio

Head of Christ - c. 1895-1896

• Ignacio Zuloaga

Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles - c. 1913

• Jan Mandijn (or Mandyn)

Burlesque Feast - c. 1550

• Joaquín Sorolla

The Relic - c. 1893

• Jorge Oteiza

Portrait of an armed Gudari (basque soldier) called Odysseus - c. 1975

• José de Ribera

St. Sebastian cured by the Holy Women - c. 1621

• José Gutiérrez Solana

On the Game - c. 1915-1917

• Juan de Arellano

Basket of Flowers - c.1671

• Luis Fernández

Head of Dead Bull - c. 1939

• Luis Meléndez

Still-Life with Fruit and Jug - c. 1773

• Luis Paret y Alcazar

View of the Arenal at Bilbao - c. 1783-1784

• Marten de Vos

The Abduction of Europa - c. 1590

• Mary Cassatt

Woman seated with a child in her arms - c. 1890

• Michel Erhart

Saint Ana, the Virgin and Child - c. 1485-1490

• Orazio Gentileschi

Lot and his Daughters - c. 1628

• Oscar Domínguez

Le Chasseur - c. 1933

• Paul Cezanne

Bathers - c. 1896-1898

• Paul Gauguin

Washerwomen in Arles - c. 1888

• Robert Delaunay

Nude Woman Reading - c. 1920

• Utagawa Kunisada

Kabuki Actor as Wood cutter - c. 1815

[edit] External links

• Museum website
• Bilbao Fine Arts Museum - Muselius