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Download a city guide of some of Europe's most beautiful cities onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As we guide you through the streets, along the route we've planned for you, our city guides will tell you what you're looking at and how to make the most of your city break.
Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)
Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica.
We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide.
Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)
MADRID – Matisse retrospective
Matisse’s career can be divided into three major periods and this exhibition focuses on the middle period, which is least well understood. Overshadowed by World War I and by forebodings of the next conflict, it was characterised by the growing acceptance of modern art by society and by the world financial crisis of 1929.
In 1917, with increasing signs that World War I was coming to an end, Matisse decided to devote his attention to pictorial investigation. He moved away from Paris, leaving his family behind, and settled in Nice. Abandoning his large-format paintings of flat colours characteristic of his early period, Matisse worked to establish a closer relationship with viewer, focusing on a work that he called a “painting of intimacy”. In order to do so the artist believed that he needed to re-introduce into his painting the feeling of volume and space that he had abandoned in the previous period.
9th June to 20th September 2009
Thyssen-Bornemiesza Museum of Art, 8 Paseo del Prado
www.museothyssen.org
You can hear more about the Thyssen Museum and about art in Madrid generally with our guide to Madrid by clicking here.
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