Museo Carmen Thyssen

Japan. Prints and Art Objects

This exhibition consists wholly of works from the Museo de Bellas Artes of Bilbao. It shows a selection of pieces from the collection of traditional Japanese art that was assembled by the collector José Palacio (1875–1952) in his Bilbao home at the beginning of the 20th century and h...

Sorolla in Jávea

Joaquín Sorolla (1863−1923) discovered Jávea in the autumn of 1896. The scenery of the place proved to be quite a revelation for the painter, then thirty-three. Sorolla was familiar with the landscapes of the beaches of his native Valencia, where he had spent hours on end maki...

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...