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 11
September 2022
Bierstadt’s view of a street in Nassau: a painting about becoming.
‘Please don’t say synchronisme... .
Lady Britain: John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Duchess Millicent.
Looking and being looked at: Richard Estes’s telephone cabins.
Open Windows 10
December 2020
Resonance Chamber. Museum Folkwang and the Beginning of Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s German Expressionist Collection.
On Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza’s beginnings as a collector of modern art .
‘The Blue Four’: Galka Scheyer and the promotion of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee in California.
Quappi, much more than Frau Beckmann.
Open Windows 9
December 2019
David Hockney and the Memory of Michelangelo.
A chance encounter. New information on Balthus’s Card Game.
The Secret Life of Corot’s Diana Bathing.
Open Windows 8
October 2017
Douglas Cooper, A Cubist Love Story.
The Death of Hyacinthus by Giambattista Tiepolo.
The Rider and the Dream: The relationship between Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky through the works they exchanged.
Open Windows 7
May 2016
An Exception in European Collecting. Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza and Nineteenthcentury American Painting.
“The New Mechanism for Picture Making” Early Works by Raoul Dufy in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza 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 2014
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 4
May 2012
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
February 2011
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
October 2010
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
June 2010
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.