Open Windows
Online periodical regarding research of the works of the Collection.
When describing his method of perspective in his treatise De Pictura, Leon Battista Alberti compared a painting with an aperta finestra, an open window. Extending this Albertian metaphor beyond the strictly optical, the new on-line periodical of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collections aims to open a window onto a different world through each work of art.
Open Windows 7
January 2016
- An Exception in European Collecting. Baron ThyssenBornemisza and Nineteenthcentury American Painting.
- “The New Mechanism for Picture Making” Early Works by Raoul Dufy in the Carmen ThyssenBornemisza Collection.
- Cézanne: Portrait of a Peasant, 1905–6.
- Lucio Fontana between Venice and Milan: Spatial Concept, Venice Was All in Gold.
- El tío Paquete:: Goya’s Prefiguration of Esperpento.
Open Windows 6
December 2015
- The Macabre in the Work of Hans Baldung Grien.
- Rousseau and Fontainebleau, beyond Brushes.
- Camille Pissarro: Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain, 1897.
- New Sources for the Study of A Grandmother.
Open Windows 5
November 2015
- 400th Anniversary of the birth of Gerrit Dou.
- Anatomy of the muse: In Misia´s Footsteps.
- Emilio Castelar, Gustave Arosa and Paul Gauguin.
- Giacometti and Portrait of a Woman.
Open Windows 4
October 2015
- The Story behind the Research: Matta and the Open Cube.
- Matta: when the invisible reveals itself.
- Watteau’s Vision of the Commedia dell’Arte.
Open Windows 3
September 2015
- Gaspar van Wittel, The Piazza Navona: episodes, scenes and characters on a market day.
- Composition of Iván Kliun. A revolutionary painting.
- A new attribution for Prison. Tatiana Glebova and the working methods of the Masters of Analytical Art.
Open Windows 2
August 2015
- Thyssen and Ketterer: two friends and a collection.
- Bronzino and Cosimo I de’Medici. The Power of an Image.
- Corot: Solitude.
- The Madonna of the Village. World War II and the Rescue of Works by Chagall
- “Art comes out to engage with life”.
Open Windows 1
December 2015
- Other ways of seeing. Baron Thyssen and Lucian Freud’s Atelier.
- Floods.
- A wartime Artist. Henry Moore and his Shelter Drawings.
- History of a Portrait: New information on the provenance of David Lyon by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
- Evening by Edvard Munch. Towards an image of melancholy.