Museo Carmen Thyssen

Naked. Normative and Rebellious Nudes in Spanish Art (1870-1970)

The almost ninety works in this exhibition tell a story unbounded by norms, offering a subjective survey designed to stimulate both the mind and the senses of viewers as they explore more than a century of very diverse nudes in Spanish art. In a country with no historical tradition in a genre tha...

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 ...

Real(isms). New Figurative Trends in Spanish Art from 1918 to 1936

This exhibition takes an extensive look at a chronologically short but creatively intense period in which the first truly determined drive towards artistic renewal (and even the avant-garde) and a break with nineteenth-century art emerged in Spain in the form of a realist figurative art.

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