Museo Lázaro Galdiano
The Spanish are enthusiastic collectors, but few equal the financier and publisher José Lázaro Galdiano (1862–1947), whose private collection of 12,600 items fills this Italianate mansion. It is astonishing in its breadth, including paintings, sculpture, archaeological artifacts, books, Byzantine jewelry, and medieval armor. The Spanish masters were his great love, and he amassed a portfolio including El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, and above all Goya, who is represented with several drawings, prints, and paintings, of which the troubling Witches’ Sabbath is the pick. He also snapped up pieces by Dutch, Flemish, and English masters, indulging his wife’s taste for Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Constable. Bequeathed to the state on his death, the collection is elegant, eclectic, and more than a little eccentric.
The Spanish are enthusiastic collectors, but few equal the financier and publisher José Lázaro Galdiano (1862–1947), whose private collection of 12,600 items fills this Italianate mansion. It is astonishing in its breadth, including paintings, sculpture, archaeological artifacts, books, Byzantine jewelry, and medieval armor. The Spanish masters were his great love, and he amassed a portfolio including El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, and above all Goya, who is represented with several drawings, prints, and paintings, of which the troubling Witches’ Sabbath is the pick. He also snapped up pieces by Dutch, Flemish, and English masters, indulging his wife’s taste for Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Constable. Bequeathed to the state on his death, the collection is elegant, eclectic, and more than a little eccentric.
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