Museo Carmen Thyssen

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...

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 ...

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...