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Vista frontal del Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña. Barcelona © MNAC - Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya
Picture in the National Art Museum of Catalonia ©Turespaña
Wooden carved figure of the crucified Christ. National Art Museum of Catalonia ©Turespaña
San Clemente de Taüll Apse. Barcelona © MNAC - Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya

One museum - 1,000 years of art

The MNAC contains works of art from the 10th to the 20th century.

The different collections at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) offer a complete exhibition encompassing all art disciplines (sculpture, painting, drawing, engraving, posters, as well as photography and coin collections). It intends to give a vision of art in Catalonia throughout history, from the Romanesque period to modern times, and the avant-garde movement. The collection features works by artists such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Fortuny, Gaudí, Casas, Torres-García, Julio González, Dalí and Picasso.

Essential works

San Clemente de Taüll Apse

This is one of the masterpieces of the European Romanesque. It is notable for its vivid colours and a style that tends towards geometry and abstraction.
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Apse of Santa María d’Àneu

It is notable for its complex iconography, particularly the synthesis of prophetic images of the Old Testament and the unusual presence of archangels acting as lawyers for mankind before God.
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Apostles around the empty Tomb

These wall paintings from a Romanesque church reflect the Classic style of one of the most acknowledged Baroque masters, Annibale Carracci.
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Self-portrait

Forms part of the famous gallery of portraits by Ramon Casas, one of the most important of those in MNAC's Print, Drawing and Poster Department.
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The Consecration of Saint Augustine

This panel, remarkable for its quality of composition and execution, formed part of one of the biggest Catalan Gothic altarpieces.
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Altar frontal of the Apostles from La Seu d’Urgell

This is notable for being of the oldest preserved altar frontals, as well as for its technical, compositional and iconographic relation with miniatures.
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Guisantes

This is one of the best examples of the New Objectivity movement in Catalonia (originating in Germany in opposition to Expressionism), a current that took technical, optical and formal laws on board, leading to a strict capturing of nature.
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Il contino

This is Fortuny’s most virtuosic work from the time he spent in Rome.
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May Belfort

This poster was extremely successful and received a prize at the 1896 International Poster Exhibition in Reims.
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Set design

This drawing is the only surviving architectural design by Diego de Siloé.
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