Museo Carmen Thyssen

The Collection grows. Recent acquisitions

Eighteen works of different styles and periods swell the Museo Carmen Thyssen Collection with themes as important as Orientalism, the portrait or the nude. This presentation reaffirms the character of the Permanent Collection and proves that this is a living, constantly growing museum. As regards...

Fortuny the printmaker

Following in the wake of other great painters and printmakers such as Rembrandt and Goya, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838−1874), an unquestionable master of Spanish nineteenth-century painting, put his virtuosic skills to exploring the expressive possibilities of printmaking – chiefly ...

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...