Second Canvas Thyssen Museum

Second Canvas Thyssen is your tool for getting closer to the secrets of Thyssen-Bornemisza museum and discover their impressive masterpieces in super high resolution, like never before.
Explore, interact, learn from stories told by Thyssen experts or choose your favorite detail and share it with your friends on social media, including the option of hooking it up to your TV screen at home or at school.

Created by Thyssen-Bornemisza museum and Madpixel, and with the exclusive collaboration of Fundación BBVA, Second Canvas Thyssen allows you to explore 8 masterpieces from the museum’s collection, including Caravaggio, Carpaccio, van Gogh, Kandinsky... with the best quality and resolution. Also including 20 additional pieces in an alternative itinerary that provides context to the masterpieces.

Works you will find on Second Canvas Thyssen:


• Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (1489-1490) by Domenico Ghirlandaio
• Young Knight in a Landscape (1510) by Vittore Carpaccio
• Saint Catherine of Alexandria (ca. 1598) by Caravaggio
• Piazza Navona, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel
• Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain (1897) by Camille Pissarro
• "Les Vessenots" en Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh
• Metropolis (1916-1917) by George Grosz
• Picture with Three Spots, No. 196 (1914) by Wassily Kandinsky

Also including 20 additional pieces in HD resolution from artists such as Antonello da Messina, Canaletto, Durer, Degas, Cézanne, Franz Marc... in an alternative itinerary, giving also context to the masterpieces.

Main features:


• Super-zoom to explore the artworks with the best quality up to the brushstroke level, and see the crackle, thanks to their Gigapixel resolution.
• Infrared, X-ray, ultraviolet vision available on some ket paintings to reveal the drawing under the painting and discover the "pentimenti", even on the tiniest details.
• Discover amazing stories on the Thyssen masterpieces, detail by detail, told by museum experts: learn about the characters, symbology, technique, or the artist signature.
• Tell your own stories on social media, selecting the details you want to share in super-high resolution.
• Download the details with their stories so they can be accessed even when you’re offline or in airplane mode.

We hope you'll enjoy Second Canvas Thyssen. Tell us about your experience with the app and help us to improve it: [email protected]

For more information about Second Canvas: www.secondcanvas.net www.museothyssen.org