European Romanticism

Caravaggio's life is truly fascinating, but I have to continue and I go on in the exterior gallery of the Villahermosa palace. I enter the area reserved for the collection Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. There, I find landscape paintings, as much urban as rural. Among the first ones, "The School of San Marcos" and "Capriccio with Colonnade in the Interior of a Palace", by Canaletto; real postcards of the time. Nearby, "The Lock" by John Constable, English landscape painter born in 1776 in East Bergholt, in the county of Suffolk. He started as a topographic designer and then studied painting at the Royal Academy of London. He is one of the few English painters of world fame.