Tag Archives: Spain

Précieux style and naturalist Painting, Carmen Thyssen Museum

An interest in everyday subjects and landscape persisted in the second half of the 19th century but artists now adopted a new approach to these themes. Spanish painting became colourful, freer and spontaneous while achieving high technical levels. Particularly in the case of landscape, painters aimed to take nature as…

Précieux style and naturalist Painting, Carmen Thyssen Museum

Romantic Landscape and Costumbrismo, Carmen Thyssen Museum

The Permanent Collection of the Museum comprises an outstanding collection of works that offers a coherent and comprehensive survey of the principal genres within 19th-century Spanish painting, with a particular emphasis on Andalusian painting. This section features important examples of the two principal themes depicted in Spanish Romantic painting during…

Romantic Landscape and Costumbrismo, Carmen Thyssen Museum

The Main space, Palau de Maricel

The ground floor of Maricel de Terra houses the service area, with direct access from Carrer de Fonollar. Up to eleven doors once opened onto this street and gave access to the palace dependencies. Today there are plans to devote part of these service areas to Modernisme interpretation centre. On…

The Main space, Palau de Maricel

The cloisters, Palau de Maricel

The last and one of the most spectacular dependencies of the Maricel de Terra is the cloister or cloisters. It is formed by a gallery facing the Miquel Utrillo bastion and a medieval-style cloister, which may even be a patio in the style of a Roman villa, with a single-sloped…

The cloisters, Palau de Maricel

The terraces, Palau de Maricel

The gardens that were in the upper terraces of the palace led to the cloisters. We have little information about this area. In fact, only a few graphic documents, nonetheless of great interest thanks to the amount of information theyprovide. In the centre of the main terrace there was a…

The terraces, Palau de Maricel

Living Rooms, Cau Ferrat Museum

Cau Ferrat Museum is the former house and studio of painter, dramatist and collector Santiago Rusiñol. Rusiñol brought his art collection from his Barcelona studio to exhibit it in this house. When he died in 1931, aged seventy, the town of Sitges inherited the house and collections. Rusiñol came to…

Living Rooms, Cau Ferrat Museum

The Great Hall, Cau Ferrat Museum

On entering the Great Hall, visitors seeing it for the first time are usually struck with the same sensation as when entering a sacred precinct. Indeed, Rusiñol arranged everything in such a way that the Great Hall would resemble a temple of art. The height of the magnificent coffered ceiling,…

The Great Hall, Cau Ferrat Museum

The ground floor, Maricel Museum

The ground floor of the Maricel Museum constitutes four clearly differentiated sections. The old Gothic chapel of the Hospital of Sant Joan and the adjoining room contain pieces that prefigure the content of the Museum’s collection, including a pair of 10th-century capitals, the 13th-century Maiestas Domini (Christ in Majesty) and…

The ground floor, Maricel Museum

Catalan Modernisme and Noucentisme, Maricel Museum

A hall dedicated to “Modernisme” in Sitges with the paintings that decorated “Cerveseria del Cau Ferrat” (Santiago Rusiñol, Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, Joaquim de Miro, Antoni Almirall, Càndid Duran) and “Noucentisme” (Joaquim Sunyer, Pere Jou, Lola Anglada, Enric Casanovas, Ismael Smith, Xavier Nogués, Josep M. Gol, Josep Clarà, Pau Gargallo,…

Catalan Modernisme and Noucentisme, Maricel Museum

The luminist school of Sitges, Maricel Museum

The luminist school consisted of a group of painters who had settled in Sitges during the last quarter of the 19th century. They shared the idea of taking their easels out of the study, of ceasing to paint from memory and of seeking new forms of expression in the landscape…

The luminist school of Sitges, Maricel Museum

Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism (17th-19th centuries), Maricel Museum

The museum included works from the collection of Dr. Jesús Pérez-Rosales that never had been exhibited in public, acquisitions by the Sitges Heritage Association since 2012 (Ramon Casas, Miquel Utrillo, Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, Artur Carbonell i Augustí Ferrer Pino) and donations from artist’s relatives (Pere Jou and Alfred Sisquella).…

Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism (17th-19th centuries), Maricel Museum

From the Romanesque to the Renaissance (10th-16th centuries), Maricel Museum

With the Maiestas Domini (Christ in Majesty) from Cap d’Aran, on the ground floor, we begin our chronological itinerary through the Museum’s collection. This fresco painting, transferred to canvas, reveals the characteristic traits of the Romanesque: pure colours and a schematic rendering of form and space. These traits are transformed…

From the Romanesque to the Renaissance (10th-16th centuries), Maricel Museum

From the World to the Museum. Product Design, Cultural Heritage, Design Museum of Barcelona

In almost everything we do throughout the day, we use one or more objects. If we want to sit down, we use a chair; to do laundry, we use a washing machine; to see each other, we turn on lights… These objects, which have a host of different designs and…

From the World to the Museum. Product Design, Cultural Heritage, Design Museum of Barcelona

Extraordinary! Collections of decorative arts and author’s arts 3rd-20th centuries, Design Museum of Barcelona

This exhibition proposes a chronological journey, from the third to the twentieth century, among the various collections preserved in the museum, of ceramics, textiles, furniture, glass, miniatures, clocks, wallpapers and other objects. This arrangement highlights the value of collections while also allowing different relationships to be established between them. Along…

Extraordinary! Collections of decorative arts and author’s arts 3rd-20th centuries, Design Museum of Barcelona

Dressing the Body: Silhouettes and Fashion 1550 – 2015, Design Museum of Barcelona

Since ancient times, human beings have altered the shape and appearance of their bodies by means of hairstyles, jewellery, tattoos and especially their clothes. In every age, the different ways of dressing are intimately connected with moral, social and aesthetic codes. Fashion imposes standards of beauty; silhouettes and volumes are…

Dressing the Body: Silhouettes and Fashion 1550 – 2015, Design Museum of Barcelona

HiSoUR – Hi So You Are

Hisour – History+Tour. Virtual Tour, Artwork Exhibition, Discovery History, Global Cultural Online.