​Their Majesties Philip VI and Letizia of Spain, and The President of Hungary, János Áder and his espouse inaugurated on the 17th of February the exhibition “Masterpieces of Budapest” at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. This exhibit, which will be open to the general public until May 28th, coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of this Madrid Museum and with the 40th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and Hungary.

Lent by the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Hungary, this exhibition draws together ninety paintings of the Italian, German, Flemish, and Spanish Schools. Considered one of the finest Spanish painting collections abroad, Velazquez, Goya, Zurbaran or Murillo’s works are on display at this exhibit, which for the first time are brought together in Spain along with the work of Da Vinci, Durer, Rubens, Cezanne, Manet and some Hungarian Masters’.  

The exhibition is chronologically divided in different sections. It starts with Renascence in Europe by displaying “Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist”, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. It continues with Baroque in Flanders and Holland. Baroque in Italy and Spain are represented, among others, with Annibale Carracci, Alonso Cano and Velazquez. At the section dedicated to the XVIII century, three Goya paintings remark. Modernity (from the XIX century to WWI) closes the exhibit.