Museo Carmen Thyssen

The illusion of the American Frontier

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the conquest of the Wild West became more than a historical event in the founding of the United States of America, developing into a universal myth in which legend progressively replaced history.

In the arts, fascination for those majestic unex...

Belgian art. From Impressionism to Magritte. Musée d’Ixelles

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From realism to the modern landscape

Through more than seventy works from the Musée d’Ixelles in Brussels, this exhibition provides a comprehensive and unique overview of the main trends in Belgian ...

Fortuny the printmaker

Following in the wake of other great painters and printmakers such as Rembrandt and Goya, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838−1874), an unquestionable master of Spanish nineteenth-century painting, put his virtuosic skills to exploring the expressive possibilities of printmaking – chiefly ...