Do you want to know more about the art world in Catalonia? A land rich in history and cultural diversity that offers us a great artistic legacy that reviews the entire history of art.
We want to talk about the artistic Catalonia, cradle of creative geniuses ranging from the modernist architecture of Antoni Gaudí or Domènech i Muntaner, to the penetrating eyes of the Christ of Sant Climent de Tahull or so many other Romanesque frescoes that you can enjoy, in situ or in the National Art Museum of Catalonia.
But also of the splendor that the Gothic style had in Catalonia and that left us magnificent works, such as the tomb of Queen Elisenda de Montcada or the altarpiece of the Virgen dels Consellers and many other altarpieces that can also be admired in churches and museums of our land.
And of course, without forgetting the most contemporary art, where works by Joan Miró or Picasso share spaces in museums and streets with other international artists such as Roy Lichtenstein.
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Alabaster or light stone is a translucent stone. The name comes from the ancient Greek and means “stone without handles”, referring to small bottles of perfume of antiquity, as they were small didn’t need handles and were made of this material. A stone that lets in light It was in …
Today is the International Museum Day and we want to celebrate it talking about one of the sculptures that we like the most of those exhibited at the MNAC, the great museum-book on the history of Catalan art that we have in Barcelona. One of the pieces that most attracts …
The urbanization works of Park Güell began in October 1900. Eusebi Güell, one of the most influential men in Barcelona at the time, commissioned Antoni Gaudi to design a garden city like those he had seen in United Kingdom. They were the utopias of the moment. Thus, Gaudi’s and Güell’s …
Saint Paul Hospital or how to heal in paradise One of the most impressive and least visited monuments in Barcelona is the Hospital de Saint Paul, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997. On January 15, 1902, work began on the new Hospital de la Santa …
The backwall of the choir in the cathedral of Barcelona is one of the great arstistic wonders preserved. We find it as soon as we enter trough the front door. It is dedicated to the patron saint of the cathedral, Saint Eulalia Eulalia was a thirteen year old Christian girl …
Nowadays, when we visit an ancient church, we are used to see it in bare stone, and it gives us the impression that they always have been like that. But in the Middle Ages, the churches were completely painted, and the stone was barely visible. Churches full of color The …
