Los Verano de la Villa

Los Verano de la Villa is on now until September. Translating to “Summer in the City,” this enormous festival showcases theatre, music, dance, circus performances, film, poetry readings and more at venues across Madrid.

A few of the museums that you can visit with you iVenture Card have exciting exhibits on during this time.

MUSEO DEL PRADO
31 May to 11 September.

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The Museo del Prado and Fundación BBVA are marking the 5th centenary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch with the first monographic exhibition to be devoted to the artist in Spain. This is one of the highest quality exhibitions organised to date. In addition to the Prado’s own holdings of the artist’s work, which are the largest and best in the world, the exhibit also includes works such as:

• The triptychs of The Garden of Earthly Delights
• The Haywain
• The Adoration of the Magi


The exhibition will feature loans such as:

• The Saint Anthony Triptych from the Museo Nacional de Arte Antigua in Lisbon
• Christ carrying the Cross from Patrimonio Nacional
• The Crowning with Thorns from the National Gallery in London
• The Drawing of the Man-Tree from the Albertina in Vienna

For more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsMELUxEs3g

MUSEO THYSSEN BORNEMISZA
21 June to 18 September 2016

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be presenting Caravaggio and the Painters of the North, an exhibition that focuses on Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610) and his influence on the northern European artists who were fascinated by his painting. There will be 53 paintings on display, twelve of them by Caravaggio. The Caravaggio paintings are loaned from private collections, museums and institutions such as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Florence Galleria degli Uffizi, the Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and the church of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome.

For more information:
http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/exposiciones_proximas/140

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For more information about the Los Verano de la Villa
https://www.veranosdelavilla.com/