Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
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The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (Spanish: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Basque
: Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa) is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao
, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park
.
It is the second largest and most visited museum in the Basque Country
, after the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
: Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa) is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao
Bilbao
Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park
Doña Casilda Iturrizar park
Doña Casilda Iturrizar park is a public park located in the Basque-Spanish city of Bilbao, in the central neighbourhood of Indautxu. It is named after Casilda Iturrízar, who donated the terrains.It was the only lung of the city until a few years ago...
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It is the second largest and most visited museum in the Basque Country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....
, after the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.
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.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.Essential works
- Adolfo Guiard: Village Girl with Red Carnation - c. 1903
- Alberto Sánchez: Figures in a Landscape - c. 1960–1962
- Ambrosius BensonAmbrosius BensonAmbrosius Benson was an Italian painter who became a part of the Northern Renaissance.While many surviving paintings have been attributed, there is very little known of him from records, and he tended not to sign his work. He is believed to be responsible for mainly religious art, but also painted...
: 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 TàpiesAntoni TàpiesAntoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies is a Catalan painter. He is one of the most famous European artists of his generation. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting...
: Great Oval or Painting - c. 1955 - Antonis Mor (Anthonis van Dashort): Portrait of Philip II - c. 1549–1550
- Aurelio ArtetaAurelio ArtetaAurelio Arteta was a Spanish painter born in Bilbao. He studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1905 and 1906 he travelled to Paris and in Italy, thanks to a grant from the Diputación Foral de Vizcaya. There he was influenced both by Impressionist painting and...
: The Bridge at Burceña - c. 1925–1930 - Bartolomé BermejoBartolomé BermejoBartolomé Bermejo was a Spanish painter who adopted Flemish painting techniques and conventions.-Biography:Bermejo, whose real name was Bartolomé de Cárdenas, was born in Córdoba...
: Flagellation of Saint Engracia - c. 1474–1478 - Bartolomé Esteban MurilloBartolomé Estéban MurilloBartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children...
: St. Lesmes - c. 1655 - Bernardo BellottoBernardo BellottoBernardo Bellotto was a Venitian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities . He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto...
: 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 ChillidaEduardo ChillidaEduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque, was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works.-Early life and career:...
: Around the Vacuum I - c. 1964 - El GrecoEl GrecoEl Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born on Crete, which was at...
(Domenikos Theotokópoulos): The Annunciation - c. 1596–1600 - Francis BaconFrancis Bacon (painter)Francis Bacon , was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds...
: 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 ZuloagaIgnacio ZuloagaIgnacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta was a Basque Spanish painter, born in Eibar, near the monastery of Loyola. He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury in Madrid.-Biography:In his youth, he drew and worked in his father's...
: Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles - c. 1913 - Jan MandijnJan MandijnJan Mandijn , was a Dutch Renaissance painter.-Biography:According to Van Mander in 1604, he was the teacher of Gillis Mostaert, and he could paint funny scenes like Hieronymus Bosch....
(or Mandyn): Burlesque Feast - c. 1550 - Joaquín Sorolla: The Relic - c. 1893
- Jorge OteizaJorge OteizaJorge Oteiza Enbil , was a Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Spanish modern art....
: 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 ArellanoJuan de ArellanoJuan de Arellano was a Spanish painter of the Baroque era who specialized in floral still life paintings.Born in Santorcaz, near Madrid, where he died. He was a pupil of Juan de Solis. Heavily influenced by Flemish and Italian painters , Juan de Arellano was considered to be exceptional in this...
: 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 AlcazarLuis Paret y AlcázarLuis Paret y Alcázar was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.He was born in Madrid he first trained with Antonio González Velazquez and attended the Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid, where he won a second prize in a painting contest in 1760, and first prize in 1766...
: View of the Arenal at Bilbao - c. 1783–1784 - Marten de VosMarten de VosMarten de Vos , also Maarten, was a leading Antwerp painter and draughtsman in the late sixteenth century.-Biography:Like Frans Floris, he travelled to Italy and adopted the mannerist style popular at the time. De Vos was also highly influenced by the colors of Venetian painting, and might have...
: The Abduction of Europa - c. 1590 - Mary CassattMary CassattMary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...
: Woman seated with a child in her arms - c. 1890 - Michel Erhart: Saint Ana, the Virgin and Child - c. 1485–1490
- Orazio GentileschiOrazio GentileschiOrazio Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, one of more important painters influenced by Caravaggio...
: Lot and his Daughters - c. 1628 - Oscar DomínguezÓscar DomínguezOscar M. Domínguez was a Spanish surrealist painter.Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, Domínguez spent his youth with his grandmother in Tacoronte and devoted himself to painting at a young age after suffering a serious illness which affected his growth and caused a...
: Le Chasseur - c. 1933 - Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
: Bathers - c. 1896–1898 - Paul GauguinPaul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...
: Washerwomen in Arles - c. 1888 - Robert DelaunayRobert DelaunayRobert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee...
: Nude Woman Reading - c. 1920 - Utagawa Kunisada: Kabuki Actor as Wood cutter - c. 1815