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National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

The National Art Museum of Catalonia, also known by its acronym MNAC, is a museum of art in the city of Barcelona which brings together all the arts whose mission is to preserve and exhibit the collection of Catalan art ‘s most important world, showing everything from Romanesque to the…

National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Modern Art Collection Part 4, Art and Civil War, National Art Museum of Catalonia

General Franco’s coup against the legitimate government of the Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936 marked the start of a civil war that ended in 1939 with the victory of the Fascists and the defeat, persecution and exile of the Republican forces. From the first moment, realising the need to…

Modern Art Collection Part 4, Art and Civil War, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modern Art Collection Part 3, Noucentisme, National Art Museum of Catalonia

By the first years of the 20th century, various cultural and artistic sectors all over Europe were reacting against the end-of-the-century styles –Art Nouveau, Modernisme, etc.–, which they accused of being decorativist and irrational and of lacking form and structure. This reaction came about in two ways: first, as a…

Modern Art Collection Part 3, Noucentisme, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modern Art Collection Part 2, Modernism, National Art Museum of Catalonia

As the stage for bourgeois power and the class struggle, the city in turmoil at the turn of the century was also the setting par excellence of modern art. All the effects of industrialisation, of technification, of the market in luxury goods and of the new mass markets in consumerism,…

Modern Art Collection Part 2, Modernism, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modern Art Collection Part 1, The Rise of the Modern Artist, National Art Museum of Catalonia

In the mid-19th century, at the same time as bourgeois society was taking shape, the figure of the modern artist appeared on the scene. Unlike the artist under the ancien régime, who was tied to the official symbolic cycles of the Church or the aristocracy, the new artist had as…

Modern Art Collection Part 1, The Rise of the Modern Artist, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modernist Interior Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modernisme is, within the Catalan artistic context, the movement that in France is known as Art Nouveau, in Germany as Jugendstil and in Austria as Sezession. Despite the popularity of the painting, architecture and sculpture, in Catalonia Modernisme is especially notable for the decorative arts, in overcoming the distinction between…

Modernist Interior Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modern Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The National Art Museum of Catalonia’s Modern Art Collection was created from the Universal Exhibition of 1888, at which time the Barcelona City Council installed the then small collection of modern art, at that contemporary time, in the Palace of Fine Arts. The collection was significantly expanded with the acquisitions…

Modern Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Numismatic Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia, created in 1932, has a collection of over 134,000 copies. The fund is the result of a long process of acquisition, donation, legacy or deposit, which began in the first half of the nineteenth century and still continues. The coin collection consists of nearly 100,000…

Numismatic Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Cambó legacy, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Cambó legacy is a collection of paintings with their own identity that embraces the history of European painting from the 14th century until the beginning of the 19th century and is permanently exhibited in the rooms of the National Art Museum of Catalonia. The de Francesc Cambo is an…

The Cambó legacy, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Renaissance and Baroque Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Renaissance and Baroque Art Collection is a valuable heritage that – unlike the great national museums in Europe, which came from the large royal and nobility collections – in Catalonia was formed from the recovery of the local heritage and the subsequent donations and acquisitions of private collections. The…

Renaissance and Baroque Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Gothic Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The collection of Gothic art includes works from the end of century XIII until well into the century xv. The origin of the works is mostly from the Catalan territory, although to a lesser extent, works from the territory of the old Crown of Aragon, such as Aragon, Mallorca and…

Gothic Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Rome Labyrinth, The Romanesque Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Romanesque Art Collection is one of the most important and emblematic of the Museum for its exceptional series of wall painting sets. In fact, its uniqueness is unparalleled in any other museum in the world. Many of these paintings, from small rural churches in the Pyrenees and other parts…

Rome Labyrinth, The Romanesque Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Sert Room, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Josep Maria Sert (1874-1945) was one of the most sought after muralist painters of his time. His mural painting assimilated the tradition of the great Venetian masters. It is worth remembering, among many others, his murals for the Rockefeller Center or the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York; the decoration…

Sert Room, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Great Hall, National Palace Barcelona

Behind the lobby is the Grand Hall or Oval Hall, which due to its large size was intended for use in major events, from the official opening ceremony of the Exhibition to, for example, concerts, gala dances or congresses. This lounge has a useful free space of 2,300 square meters,…

Great Hall, National Palace Barcelona

Throne Room, National Palace Barcelona

This hall, also called the conference or conference room, is the one that was decorated with nobler materials; all its walls are covered with different colored marbles to form geometric patterns. On the throne, placed on the occasion of the 1929 Exhibition, the Barcelona painter Ricard Canals was commissioned to…

Throne Room, National Palace Barcelona

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