Museo Carmen Thyssen

Perversity. Femmes Fatales in Modern Art (1880–1950)

From the eternal feminine to the new woman, this exhibition surveys more than half a century of images featuring women in a period – from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s – when their representation in art underwent a paradigm shift as a reflection of the social situation of the time. ...

Sorolla in Jávea

Joaquín Sorolla (1863−1923) discovered Jávea in the autumn of 1896. The scenery of the place proved to be quite a revelation for the painter, then thirty-three. Sorolla was familiar with the landscapes of the beaches of his native Valencia, where he had spent hours on end maki...

Piranesi. A Visionary’s Prints

The more than a thousand prints produced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720−Rome, 1778) are the work of a passionate architect with a painter’s eye who only expressed his creativity in etched plates. A universal master of printmaking, Piranesi earned a reputation as the best ...