Museo Carmen Thyssen

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 ...

The modern tradition in the Carmen Thyssen: Monet, Picasso, Matisse and Miró

The exhibition The modern tradition in the Carmen Thyssen. Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Miró presents a selection of contemporary works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. The course is structured around the Spanish art made ​​between 1890 and 1960, but they also include some relevant examples...

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...