Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya ( Spanish : Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña ), also known as the MNAC , is a museum in Barcelona , Spain . It was created in 1990 when the collection of the Museu d'Art Modern and the Museu d'Art de Catalunya were merged.
The MNAC is a consortium of the City of Barcelona and the Catalan Ministry of Culture. Its headquarters are in the Palau Nacional in Barcelona, which lies at the foot of Montjuïc and was opened in 1929 on the occasion of the world exhibition . Three other institutions are part of the MNAC: the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer in Vilanova i la Geltrú , the Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa in Olot and the Museu Cau Ferrat in Sitges .
The collections
The Romanesque collection is one of the most extensive in the world. The basis is the unique section of Romanesque frescoes in true-to-scale architectural settings. The partly large-format wall paintings from the 12th and 13th centuries were removed from small churches in the Pyrenees and preserved in the 1920s . The collection also includes numerous panel paintings and wooden sculptures .
The Gothic art collection focuses on Catalan panel painting and sculpture. It includes numerous works by Bernat Martorell , Jaume Huguet and Lluís Dalmau .
As a result of the relative insignificance of Catalonia at the time, the art collection of the Baroque and Renaissance periods is not of the same high quality as that of the Middle Ages. Still, the museum has outstanding works from the 16th to 18th centuries - albeit not from Catalonia. Particularly noteworthy are paintings by El Greco and Velázquez . The affiliated Llegat Cambó collection also expands the holdings with outstanding evidence of Italian and French Baroque painting, in particular Old Dutch painting and the Italian Quattrocento . Part of the art collection of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is also attached .
The Modern Art Collection brings together the most important works of Catalan art of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century. The succession of the different currents in this period is seamlessly presented: from neoclassicism to realism , modernism and noucentism to the avant-garde .
In addition to these collections, there was a numismatics and copperplate department , as well as the fund of the Biblioteca General de Historia del Arte. In 1996 a department dedicated to photography was added. In 2006 the museum's holdings comprised 250,000 works in the various collections. In addition to providing space for traveling and permanent exhibitions, it also fulfilled other tasks, such as supporting the restoration and conservation of works of art.
Web links
- Website of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Catalan, Spanish, English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 22 ′ 6 " N , 2 ° 9 ′ 11.9" E