Museo Carmen Thyssen

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 ...

Summer Days

The Summer Days exhibition takes its title from the work by Vicente Palmaroli in the Museum’s collection. Through a selection of Spanish and international painting, it surveys how, beginning in the mid-1800s, beaches and the sea gradually became a subject for painters.

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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...