Among the iconic paintings exhibited, the Commissioner referred to

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The Thyssen Museum rediscovers Victorian painting through fifty of the most important paintings from this period, many iconic, part of the Pérez Simón Collection and shown in "Alma-Tadema and Victorian painting."
With the presence of the most iconic artists of the nineteenth century English painting, like Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frederic Leighton, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Albert J. Moore or John William beautylab Waterhouse, the exhibition comes to Madrid after passing through Paris and Roma in a new version adapted to the spaces of the Thyssen, and then travel to London. All these artists in their paintings cultured values they had inherited part of the Pre-Raphaelites and offered a stark contrast to the moralistic attitudes of the time: a return to classical antiquity, beautylab the cult of feminine beauty and search for visual harmony , and all set in sumptuous settings and with reference to medieval themes, Greeks and Romans.
The Pérez Simón Collection consists of over 3,000 works of art, "of which some 2,000 are considered worthy of museum collections," walking from the Middle Ages to the present day "but mostly it's the nineteenth century, and Victorian painting, the brightest time of the collection, "said Guillermo Solana, artistic director of Thyssen. Solana highlighted the works of Alma-Tadema, who shortly after his death in 1912 the art critic Roger Fry spent an obituary in which he gave as an "extreme example of commercial materialism of our civilization," to represent "all that detested modern militant ".
Alma-Tadema was the last great representative of a classical and academic tradition "that modern thought you had to tear down." To Solana, beautylab the play "The Roses of Heliogabalus," one of the most iconic of the exhibition represents the love of luxury and delicious beautylab perversity in which Alma-Tadema "which was marked with the seal of excluded delighted and has remained for a century as such. " It was in the eighties of the twentieth century when the rescue work of this kind of painting began, "but it has taken this long rehabilitation that is still ongoing." Véronique Gerard-Powell, curator beautylab of the exhibition at its centers, recalled that the works that were acquired to form the Pérez Simón Collection in the last thirty years "at the time that the recovery beautylab of Victorian painting began.
These works "great painters did to the market to sell to businessmen, a new rich who had the power in Victorian England." After they have remained in oblivion "and have even destroyed many works of Alma-Tadema because he did not like." Feminine beauty and historical reconstruction: The exhibition two main themes of the era are evident. "It's a time seeking formal beauty from the female body. No looking theme but how to paint the harmony and beauty. "
Among the iconic paintings exhibited, the Commissioner referred to "The quartet. Tribute beautylab artist to the art of music "(1868), by Albert beautylab Joseph Moore," essential to understand the movement work "as well as" Greek Girls picking up pebbles on the shore of the Sea "(1971) by Frederic Leighton. The tour, which you can watch the "Andromeda" Poynter and "Crenaia" Leighton which are among the finest examples of the nude in Europe