Museo Carmen Thyssen

Summer Days

The Summer Days exhibition takes its title from the work by Vicente Palmaroli in the Museum’s collection. Through a selection of Spanish and international painting, it surveys how, beginning in the mid-1800s, beaches and the sea gradually became a subject for painters.

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Fiercely human. Portraits of Baroque Sanctity

Sanctity and its portrayal in art were two aspects that characterised Baroque culture in Spain. Following the Council of Trent (1545–63), the cult of saints as mediators and the definition of Catholicism as a decidedly visual religion were cornerstones of the Catholic reaction to the Protes...

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...