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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

MNAC: Romanesque Art from the 1100s, mostly

 Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya  https://www.museunacional.cat/en/medieval-inertia

The MNAC is unique in the world for its Romanesque mural paintings, discovered largely in the early 20th century in the churches of the Pyranees.  There are frescoes, the oldest painted altar fronts in Europe, painted wood carvings and liturgical objects from 1000 to the 1200s.  The next three 'chapters' cover Romanesque carved altar pieces, art of the 1200's and Gothic art 1250-1500.

Stone carving from monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, around 1150.


Altar front from church of Sant Quire de Durro, mid 1100s.


Catalonian church fresco, removed from the church in the 1930's.  Sant Climent de Taüll, 1123.



Altar decoration from the church of Sant Martí de Tost, about 1220.

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