Pedralbes Monastery
The Reial monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes , on Spanish Real monasterio de Santa María de Pedralbes (, Royal Monastery of Santa Maria of Pedralbes') in Barcelona was in 1326 by Queen Elisenda de Montcada , the fourth and last wife of King James II. Founded and handed over to the Poor Clares. The name of the monastery and later the whole area goes back to the white rock ("Petras Albas") that was mined nearby.
The monument from the 14th century is a good example of the Aragonese-Catalan Gothic . The single-nave monastery church has a ribbed vault , a polygonal apse and remarkable rose windows . Elisenda found her final resting place in an alabaster sarcophagus in the monastery church.
The inner courtyard is enclosed by a two-story cloister . A well-preserved cycle of frescoes was discovered in the 19th century in the Michael's chapel in the cloister behind wall cupboards . The wall paintings created around 1343 according to Italian specifications could finally be attributed to the well-known Catalan artist Ferrer Bassa .
The dormitory and the “salon” of the royal palace house a small part of the 800 paintings that Spain acquired in 1993 from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The main section is located in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza developed Palacio Villahermosa in Madrid . The exhibition includes masterpieces of European painting, from the early Middle Ages to the 18th century, with works by Lucas Cranach and Bernhard Strigel , as well as with the Venetian paintings from Titian to Guardi .
In the other rooms of the cloister, the Museu-Monasteri de Pedralbes shows an exhibition that brings monastery life to life in the 14th century. You can see numerous works of art, liturgical objects and furniture that the Poor Clares collected during the centuries of existence of the convent .
During the Spanish Civil War the barracks "Carlos Marx" of the PSUC were located in the monastery .
literature
- Barbara Borngässer: Catalonia - art, landscape, architecture . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2702-8 , p. 262.
- Maria Assumpta Escudero i Ribot, Josep Mainar: El moble català al Monestir de Pedralbes . Museu d'Art de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona 1976, ISBN 84-500-7560-2 .
- Maria Assumpta Escudero i Ribot, Maria Maragall Garriga: Art i història de Catalunya en el Monestir de Pedralbes . Museu-Monestir de Pedralbes, Fundació Güell, Barcelona 1986.
- Maria Assumpta Escudero i Ribot: El Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes . Edicions de Nou Art Thor, Barcelona 1988, ISBN 84-7327-170-X , ( Terra nostra 12).
- Maria Assumpta Escudero i Ribot, Joan Ainaud de Lasarte: Els vitralls medievals de la catedral de Barcelona i el monestir de Pedralbes . Inst. D'Estudis Catalans, Secció Històrico-Arqueològica, Àmbit Serveis Ed., Barcelona 1997, ISBN 84-7283-335-6 , ( Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi : Espanya 9: Catalunya 4).
- Cristina SANJUST i LATORRE: L'Obra del Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes des de la seva fundació fins al segle XVI: un monestir reial per a l'orde de les clarisses a Catalunya . Promocions i Publicacions Universitàries; [Bellaterra]: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Món Juïc, Barcelona 2010.
Web links
- Museu d'Història de la Ciutat (Catalan, Spanish, English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 23 ′ 44 ″ N , 2 ° 6 ′ 44 ″ E