| Noted for its most comprehensive collection of Romanesque art. |
The current museum was established in 1990 by uniting the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1945, and the Museum of Catalan Art, which opened in 1934. In the pieces from these museums are adding a new section of coins, engravings and other funds of the General Library of Art History. Later, in 1996, a new department devoted to photography. Currently (2006), the museum collection has almost 250,000 works in different libraries. In addition to temporary exhibits and traveling museum also performs other functions as are the study, preservation and restoration of works of art.
The MNAC is a consortium formed by the Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and, since early 2005, the General State Administration. [1] The patronage of the museum are represented, in addition to government, individuals and private entities that collaborate with the museum.
The headquarters is located in the National Palace building in Montjuic, opened in 1929 for the International Exposition held in Barcelona. In addition, three institutions are part of the whole museum: Museum Library Victor Villanueva Balaguer y la Geltrú, the County Museum in the Olot Garrotxa and the Museo Cau Ferrat in Sitges.
The National Palace of Montjuic
The so-called National Palace was built for the 1929 International Exhibition, devoted to Spanish art exhibition with more than 5,000 works from around the country. In his Oval Office was held the opening ceremony of the exhibition, led by Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia. The project was Cendoya Eugene, Enric Catà and Pere Domènech i Roura. Built between 1926 and 1929, has an area of 32,000 m2. Waterfalls and fountains of the steps of the Palace were the work of Carles Buïgas, and placed nine large projectors that still emit intense beams of light about writing the name of the city in the sky. The speed of construction and the modesty of materials that were accusing explain deficiencies in consistency, which would require major works when it was adapted to house the MNAC (1934).
Its architectural style can be defined or eclectic historicist revival in the taste that prevailed at the time, especially in buildings and grand commemorative purposes. It fused elements of renaissance and baroque to try to combine the most typical and recognizable of Spain with the classicism that was standard in public buildings. Thus, the central dome can remind the church of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Cathedral in London, while the side towers are almost identical to the Giralda in Seville. Given these vertical elements of a certain harmony and lightness, the body of the building is solid, box-shaped and almost without windows, which gives an effect of certain heaviness.
Interestingly, this apparent strength did not correspond to the interior, which was accused of lift problems. The Italian architect Game Aulenti was convened, in the '80s, tackling these problems and also to adapt the spacious interiors, high ceilings, its functions as exhibition halls. The works were lengthened by technical complications and were addressed in several phases, so that, during the 1992 Olympics could be presented only a foreshadowing of the future museum. Were concluded in 2004 with the new rooms of the nineteenth century and the deposit of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, who joined in 2005 another loan of works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza.
In-style decor noucentista, contrary to the classicism of the architectural work, involved various artists: in sculpture, made Enric Casanovas Work and Religion in the cockles of the Hall of Lost Steps, The Archeology in the main staircase and the West in a secondary domes, Josep Dunyach was author of The Art, the staircase, East in another high domes, and The Force and Law in the Hall of Lost Steps, Frederic Mares and statues made Josep Llimona the staircase located at the Palace. In painting Galí Francesc d'Assis made the fresco paintings of the central dome, Josep de Togores decorated the drum of the dome, Manuel Humbert intervened in the scallops, Josep Obiols in the stalls, Joan Colom decorated the Tea Room and Francesc Labarta the Throne Room.
Collection
Pantocrator from Sant Climent de Taüll, Catalan Romanesque masterpiece at MNAC
Of all the outstanding museum collections of Romanesque art. The museum displays a series of murals that make it unique in the world. Also shown are various wood carvings, metalwork, enamels and sculptures in stone. Most pieces are examples of Romanesque art in Catalonia.
The Gothic period the museum shows pieces made by various techniques that serve to illustrate this historical period in Catalonia. In the section devoted to Renaissance and Baroque highlights two tables Bartolomé Bermejo, a Martyrdom of Ribera, Zurbaran's an Immaculate Conception and St. Paul's famous Velazquez, one of the few paintings of the artist kept safe away from the Prado Museum. However, this section of the museum was incomplete and greatly improved with the private collection of a deposit Francesc Cambo and the Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Cambo Collection was donated so selflessly. Among such works include paintings by Sebastiano del Piombo, Rubens, Portrait of the Abbot of Saint-Non Fragonard, two Venetian Scenes by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and a curious mythological scene, Cupid and Psyche, by Goya.
The MNAC houses since 2004 works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. At first the works were displayed at the Monastery of Pedralbes but decided to transfer to facilitate visits by the public. Showing paintings periods from the Gothic period and the Rococo, with examples of Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Lucas Cranach, Ludovico Carracci, Canaletto ...
Since 2005, the museum also houses some works of Catalan painting of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, ceded free deposit. Among them are works by Mariano Fortuny, Lluís Graner, Ramon Casas, Joaquim Mir, Anglada Camarasa Hermen, Joaquin Torres Garcia and Antoni Tàpies.
Also recently, the MNAC has incorporated several works by Pablo Picasso, among which include Woman with hat and fur collar, received as dation in payment of taxes. A unique painting of Edvard Munch is displayed as a loan since September 2007: Portrait of Lütken Thor, who was the lawyer of the painter.
The MNAC is a consortium formed by the Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and, since early 2005, the General State Administration. [1] The patronage of the museum are represented, in addition to government, individuals and private entities that collaborate with the museum.
The headquarters is located in the National Palace building in Montjuic, opened in 1929 for the International Exposition held in Barcelona. In addition, three institutions are part of the whole museum: Museum Library Victor Villanueva Balaguer y la Geltrú, the County Museum in the Olot Garrotxa and the Museo Cau Ferrat in Sitges.
The National Palace of Montjuic
The so-called National Palace was built for the 1929 International Exhibition, devoted to Spanish art exhibition with more than 5,000 works from around the country. In his Oval Office was held the opening ceremony of the exhibition, led by Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia. The project was Cendoya Eugene, Enric Catà and Pere Domènech i Roura. Built between 1926 and 1929, has an area of 32,000 m2. Waterfalls and fountains of the steps of the Palace were the work of Carles Buïgas, and placed nine large projectors that still emit intense beams of light about writing the name of the city in the sky. The speed of construction and the modesty of materials that were accusing explain deficiencies in consistency, which would require major works when it was adapted to house the MNAC (1934).
Its architectural style can be defined or eclectic historicist revival in the taste that prevailed at the time, especially in buildings and grand commemorative purposes. It fused elements of renaissance and baroque to try to combine the most typical and recognizable of Spain with the classicism that was standard in public buildings. Thus, the central dome can remind the church of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Cathedral in London, while the side towers are almost identical to the Giralda in Seville. Given these vertical elements of a certain harmony and lightness, the body of the building is solid, box-shaped and almost without windows, which gives an effect of certain heaviness.
Interestingly, this apparent strength did not correspond to the interior, which was accused of lift problems. The Italian architect Game Aulenti was convened, in the '80s, tackling these problems and also to adapt the spacious interiors, high ceilings, its functions as exhibition halls. The works were lengthened by technical complications and were addressed in several phases, so that, during the 1992 Olympics could be presented only a foreshadowing of the future museum. Were concluded in 2004 with the new rooms of the nineteenth century and the deposit of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, who joined in 2005 another loan of works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza.
In-style decor noucentista, contrary to the classicism of the architectural work, involved various artists: in sculpture, made Enric Casanovas Work and Religion in the cockles of the Hall of Lost Steps, The Archeology in the main staircase and the West in a secondary domes, Josep Dunyach was author of The Art, the staircase, East in another high domes, and The Force and Law in the Hall of Lost Steps, Frederic Mares and statues made Josep Llimona the staircase located at the Palace. In painting Galí Francesc d'Assis made the fresco paintings of the central dome, Josep de Togores decorated the drum of the dome, Manuel Humbert intervened in the scallops, Josep Obiols in the stalls, Joan Colom decorated the Tea Room and Francesc Labarta the Throne Room.
Collection
Pantocrator from Sant Climent de Taüll, Catalan Romanesque masterpiece at MNAC
Of all the outstanding museum collections of Romanesque art. The museum displays a series of murals that make it unique in the world. Also shown are various wood carvings, metalwork, enamels and sculptures in stone. Most pieces are examples of Romanesque art in Catalonia.
The Gothic period the museum shows pieces made by various techniques that serve to illustrate this historical period in Catalonia. In the section devoted to Renaissance and Baroque highlights two tables Bartolomé Bermejo, a Martyrdom of Ribera, Zurbaran's an Immaculate Conception and St. Paul's famous Velazquez, one of the few paintings of the artist kept safe away from the Prado Museum. However, this section of the museum was incomplete and greatly improved with the private collection of a deposit Francesc Cambo and the Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Cambo Collection was donated so selflessly. Among such works include paintings by Sebastiano del Piombo, Rubens, Portrait of the Abbot of Saint-Non Fragonard, two Venetian Scenes by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and a curious mythological scene, Cupid and Psyche, by Goya.
The MNAC houses since 2004 works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. At first the works were displayed at the Monastery of Pedralbes but decided to transfer to facilitate visits by the public. Showing paintings periods from the Gothic period and the Rococo, with examples of Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Lucas Cranach, Ludovico Carracci, Canaletto ...
Since 2005, the museum also houses some works of Catalan painting of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, ceded free deposit. Among them are works by Mariano Fortuny, Lluís Graner, Ramon Casas, Joaquim Mir, Anglada Camarasa Hermen, Joaquin Torres Garcia and Antoni Tàpies.
Also recently, the MNAC has incorporated several works by Pablo Picasso, among which include Woman with hat and fur collar, received as dation in payment of taxes. A unique painting of Edvard Munch is displayed as a loan since September 2007: Portrait of Lütken Thor, who was the lawyer of the painter.
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