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 ...

Darío de Regoyos. The Impressionist Adventure

Darío de Regoyos was acquainted at first hand with some of the new art movements of the late 19th century, allowing him to contribute his innovative approach to the stagnated Spanish art scene of the day. Entitled Darío de Regoyos. The Impressionist Adventure, this exhibition curren...

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 ...