Museo Carmen Thyssen

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...

Memory of the Streets

In this exhibition three women photographers explore the streets of Barcelona in three consecutive periods of key importance in Spain’s recent history. Margaret Michaelis, who arrived from Berlin in 1933, came across the modern city of the 1930s then in the midst of transformation and growt...

Context exhibition: Faith and Fervour in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. Simone Martini, Van Dyck, Gauguin

The aim of the exhibition Faith and Fervour in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection is to drawn attention to paintings on religious subjects in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. This lesser known aspect of the Collection is in fact represented by works of outstanding quality due to the remarkabl...