Last day in Madrid. My first stop was the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. I passed a building and saw this forbidding looking guy; how would you like to have him staring at you when you went to work every day?
On the other side of the bank, they have abstract versions of the same. I really like the way they did it.
This part of the building decoration jumped out at me.
Here is a picture of the outside of the museum, and a bust of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
No photography was allowed in the museum. It’s a good collection. Unquestionably the best thing I saw was Jan Van Eyck’s diptych of the Annunication. It’s a painting, but it looks like it is three-dimensional.
Here are some pictures from the museum area, starting at the Plaza de Cibeles headed down toward Puerta del Sol.
Finally, this picture of a church near the hotel. I never noticed it before because I was usually leaving in the morning before the sun came up (at 8:30 a.m.) or after sundown (about 6 p.m.).
These two posters are for a bar named “100 Montaditos.” The first one is nothing special (“Mug Mania”), but the second one, and advertisement for their sandwiches, is just brilliant.
FInally, this sign for some band, and signs for a housewares store named “Total Savings.”
