Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña ), also known as MNAC, is a museum in Barcelona, Spain. It was created in 1990, when the collection of the Museu d'Art Modern and the Museu d'Art de Catalunya were merged.
The MNAC is a consortium of the city of Barcelona and the Catalan Ministry of Culture. Its headquarters is located in the Palau Nacional, which is located at the foot of Montjuïc and 1929 on the occasion of the world exhibition opens wurde.Drei other institutions are part of the MNAC: the Biblioteca Museu Victor Balaguer in Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Museu de la Garrotxa Comarcal in Olot and the Museu Cau Ferrat in Sitges.
The collections
The Romanesque collection is considered one of the most extensive in the world. The basis is the unique division of Romanesque frescoes in scale, architectural backdrops. The sometimes large-scale wall paintings of the 12th and 13th centuries were taken in the 1920s from small churches in the Pyrenees and preserved. In addition, the collection contains numerous paintings and wooden sculptures.
The collection of Gothic art has at its core the Catalan panel painting and sculpture. It includes numerous works by Bernat Martorell, Jaume Huguet and Lluís Dalmau.
The art collection of the Baroque and the Renaissance as a result of the former relative insignificance of Catalonia, not all of equal quality to that of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the museum has outstanding works from the 16th to the 18th century - though not from Catalonia. To be mentioned as particularly paintings by El Greco and Velázquez. The connected collection Llegat Cambó extended the stock also outstanding monuments of the Italian and French Baroque painting, in particular the Early Netherlandish painting and the Italian Quattrocento. Also connected is a part of the art collection of the Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza.
The Art Collection of Modern brings together the most important works of Catalan art of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century. The succession of different trends in this period is represented seamlessly: from neoclassicism on realism, modernism and noucentisme to avant-garde.
These collections came a numismatics and a copper engraving department, and the fundus of the Biblioteca General de Historia del Arte. In 1996, added a department dedicated to photography. 2006, the body of the museum's 250,000 plants in the various collections. In addition to providing space for traveling and permanent exhibitions, it also fulfilled other tasks, such as to support the restoration and conservation of works of art.