Lázaro Galdiano Museum
Italianate mansion housing a collector's trove of Bosch, Goya, El Greco and Zurbaran works.
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This guide to the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid opens in 1910, when publisher and collector José Lázaro Galdiano tried to keep a Flemish altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes in Spain, organizing public lectures and a subscription drive to outbid Berlin's museums. It follows him into the Italianate mansion he built with his wife, Paula Florido, and the trove he assembled there, from a small Bosch panel he tracked down himself to works by Goya, El Greco and Zurbarán. Give yourself time to wander the rooms slowly; the collection rewards it.
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