500 Years of Art and Collecting
For more than five hundred years, the Alba family has formed part of the most important aristocratic lineages in Europe, not only because of its military, political, and social significance, but also due to the relevance of its cultural patronage and its art collecting. Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting will display some of the finest examples from this collecting tradition, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries up to the end of the twentieth century, in a display of continuity unparalleled by other large European collections.
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Charles V and the Empress Isabella (c. 1628), Peter Paul Rubens
The Grand Duke of Alba killing a hydra with heads of the enemies of Philip II (16th century)
The Duchess of Alba in White (1795), Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Girl with Hat with Cherries (1880), Pierre Auguste Renoir
Fan of Empress Eugenia de Montijo (1852-70)
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