Museo Carmen Thyssen

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 ...

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 ...

Arabian Fantasy. Orientalist Painting in Spain (1860–1900)

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European colonial expansion in northern Africa in the 1800s encouraged many artists, especially French and Spanish, to travel ...