Museo Carmen Thyssen

Courbet, Van Gogh, Monet, Léger. From naturalist Landscape to the Avant-gardes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection

This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Obra Social “la Caixa”, offers a survey of landscape painting from the triumph of naturalism to the mid-20th century through a selection of works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection.

Divided into five sections, ...

Zurbarán. Saints

During the Baroque period in Spain the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation gave rise to an art based on realistic and highly dramatic images whose purpose was to inspire devotion through highly emotionally charged depictions of saintliness. This context, in what was known as the Spani...

Casas-Rusiñol. Two modernist visions

Bourgeois, Bohemians, successful painters in Spain and Europe and foremost practitioners of Catalan modernism, Ramón Casas (1866–1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) are two of the great Spanish artists of the late 1800s who revitalised the painting scene of their day ...