Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Volume 1

The private art collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is regarded as one of the most important in the world. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has published these two volumes to accompany the permanent museum exhibition of the International Collection, which features 345 works of art by renowned artists such as Brueghel, de Hooch, Van Goyen, Canaletto, Fragonard, Constable, Corot, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Braque, Kandinsky, Nolde, Heckel, Hopper, Picasso, Juan Gris, and many others.

The volumes also include a selection of notable works by nineteenth-century American artists, including Head, Bierstadt, Church, and Bricher.

Each work in the collection is presented with full-color illustrations, detailed documentation, and concise summary entries, accompanied by scholarly research and analyses contributed by 87 international experts and specialists. Each chapter opens with an introduction by Javier Arnaldo, publisher of the volumes and co-curator at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.

• Volume 1 focuses on art from the 13th to the 19th centuries,

• Volume 2 highlights works from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Together, the two volumes comprise 960 pages and feature around 270 beautifully reproduced, full-color images.