Female identities in art
The collection of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya conserves a large number of works in which the image of the woman takes on a major prominence, and becomes an authentic advertising claim. Far...
View ArticleThe renewal of the collection: new formats, new narrative
The modern art and contemporary collections of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya originate from the Universal Exposition that held in Barcelona in 1888. From that moment on and through very...
View ArticleA museum you’ve never seen! The renewed Modern Art collection
We are reopening the first floor dedicated to Modern Art, after a process of renovation of the collections, the galleries and the museography. We have turned everything round in the museum so as to...
View ArticleThe albums of Bellezas (Beauties) by the photographer Joan Martí i Centellas
Yolanda Ruiz The photographer Joan Martí i Centellas, who was born in L’Alcora in 1832 and died in Camprodon in 1902, began his professional career in Barcelona, where he worked in different places...
View ArticleRamon Casas and the Chinese Shadow Puppets. Bohemia and the popular imaginary
Francesc Quílez Ramon Casas is a paradigmatic example of the modern artist in any literal sense of the term. Critics and historians have pointed him out as a great painter and the creator of some of...
View ArticleRamon Pichot. Some curiosities about the artist
Isabel Fabregat Our exhibition Ramon Pichot, an important painter for Catalan art at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, has been opened. For the first time, his artistic...
View ArticlePost-mortem photographic portraits in the nineteenth century
Alícia Cornet Most of us associate post-mortem photography with a custom belonging to other cultures, other countries. We see it as a distant practice, which was performed beyond our frontiers. Nothing...
View ArticleMarià Fortuny: painting as the representation of a worldview
Francesc Quílez This last year, those of us who love the work of the painter Marià Fortuny have been very fortunate. Two temporary exhibitions have given us the chance to contemplate the talent of one...
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