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 ...

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...

Paradises and Landscapes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. From Brueghel to Gauguin

This exhibition, curated by Lourdes Moreno, will present a fascinating survey of landscape painting from the 17th to the mid-20th century through major works in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The exhibition will analyse the depiction of nature as a poetic vision of paradise, frequently...