Museo Carmen Thyssen

Zurbarán. Saints

During the Baroque period in Spain the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation gave rise to an art based on realistic and highly dramatic images whose purpose was to inspire devotion through highly emotionally charged depictions of saintliness. This context, in what was known as the Spani...

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...

Casas-Rusiñol. Two modernist visions

Bourgeois, Bohemians, successful painters in Spain and Europe and foremost practitioners of Catalan modernism, Ramón Casas (1866–1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) are two of the great Spanish artists of the late 1800s who revitalised the painting scene of their day ...