HEROINES at the Thyssen-Bornemisza

Madrid: As many as 120 pieces collected from museums around the world, representing some of the most celebrated women portraits will be exposed at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum from March 8 to June 5, in collaboration with the Caja Madrid Foundation.

The grand tour explores scenarios, attitudes and conflicts of heroines and lays bare a reading of the history of society: war, sports, religion, reading and the creative process.

The in-depth look is made up of artworks by such women artists as Mary Cassat, Lee Kassner, Nancy Spero, Angelica Kauffmann, Berthe Morisot, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Mona Hatoum, Julia Fullerton-Batten, as well as male creators like Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix, Pissarro, Degas, Munch, Nolde, Hopper, among others.

In the same breath, a monographic course is underway from March 9 to May 4 at the museum’s conference room, led by Rocio de la Villa, a professor of Esthetics and Art Theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Laid out in eight sessions, the course will deal with representations of women engaged in hands-on roles within the history of Western arts: amazons, maenads, nymphs or bacchantes are some of the models chosen for this particular cultural, literary and social framework.

For more information, visit www.museothyssen.org and www.educathyssen.org