Museo Carmen Thyssen

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 ...

Gustave Doré, a traveller around Andalusia

(Imagen: Gustave Doré, The cathedral and port of Málaga, 1865. Colección UC de Arte Gráfico)

The famous painter and illustrator Gustave Doré and the Hispanist Jean-Charles Davillier, both keen enthusiasts of Spain and things Spanish, toured th...

Paul Strand. Pure Beauty. Photographs from the Fundación MAPFRE Collection

Beginnings in New York (1915−1930)

This is the first exhibition to show the complete holdings of the photographs of Paul Strand (New York, 1890−Orgeval, France, 1976) acquired by Fundación MAPFRE between 2011 and 2015, the largest existing collection ...