Museo Carmen Thyssen

Sorolla in Andalusia

Joaquín Sorolla, an indefatigable painter and tireless traveller with a curious and cosmopolitan nature and an enquiring mind, shaped a particular lifestyle marked by constant wanderings. Over the years he continually explored the world within his reach. And painting was always the main re...

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 ...

Max Ernst: natural history

A key figure in the development of art in the 20th century, the German painter, sculptor and graphic artist Max Ernst (Brühl, 1891−Paris, 1976) set out to visualise a unique and fascinating dream world in his works. The Natural History (Histoire naturelle) series, one...