Museo Carmen Thyssen

The illusion of the American Frontier

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the conquest of the Wild West became more than a historical event in the founding of the United States of America, developing into a universal myth in which legend progressively replaced history.

In the arts, fascination for those majestic unex...

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 ...

Provocative Materials for Thought Contemporary Japanese Photography. José Luis Soler Vila Collection

Featuring an extensive selection of photographs from the José Luis Soler Vila Collection, which are displayed in the Sala Noble and Espacio ArteSonado, this exhibition brings together and summarises the main contributions made by photographers active in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s to the ph...