Museu de Maricel
The Museu de Maricel in the old town of Sant Juan of the Catalan city of Sitges is part of the museum landscape of Sitges in Spain and as such is a listed building.
On the first and second floors, it offers a structured overview of the artistic style eras from the 10th to the 20th century. It shows collections of sculptures and paintings from the Romanesque , Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque periods from the collection of Jesús Pérez-Rosales. There are works of Romanticism (Joaquim Espalter i Rull, Marià Fortuny i Marsal), Realism and the Luminist School of Sitges (Joan Roig i Soler, Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, Joaquim de Miró i Argenter, Antoni Almirall i Romagosa), and Modernism (Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, Ramon Casas, Miquel Utrillo, Josep Llimona) and des Noucentisme (Joaquim Sunyer, Enric Casanovas, Joan Rebull, Lola Anglada, Joaquim de Miró).
On the ground floor, the Gothic chapel of the old hospital of Sant Juan is shown, which was the previous building on the site of the current museum. In the Sert exhibition room, murals by the Catalan painter Josep Maria Sert i Badia (1874–1945), specifically allegories of the great war of 1916, are presented. In the viewing room, sculptures by the sculptor Joan Rebull and a female figure as an allegory of the Mediterranean by an unknown artist around 1915 are exhibited in front of a fantastic coastal and sea backdrop . In the adjoining gallery, there are works of noucentism, realism and figurative works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century by Artur Carbonell i Carbonell , Alfred Sisquella i Oriol , the draftsman Agustí Ferrer i Pino , the Fauvist painter Miquel Villà i Bassols and the painter Jaume Mercadé i Queralt .
literature
- Museu del Cau Ferrat, Museu de Maricel, Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges (editor): Leaflet Museu de Maricel, Museu del Cau Ferrat (as of 2016).
Web links
- Sitges Museums website (in English)
- Museu de Maricel on museusdesitges.cat (in English)
- Maricel Palace at Google Cultural Institute