Prodigies in the collection
Faced with illnesses, spells, and many other dangers that threatened their survival, the men and women from the middle ages often placed their hopes for healing or protection in the power, so they...
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The panel of The princess Eudoxia in front of the tomb of Saint Stephen of the altarpiece of Saint Stephen of Granollers represents the Roman Emperor Theodosius II and Empress Eudoxia leading their...
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The use of incisions by the artist As we saw in the previous article, once the panel had been prepared with the different layers of plaster, the artist made the preparatory sketch. He began with sticks...
View ArticleA new attribution to Joan Mates, a painter of Catalan Gothic
On the basis of its style, a small fragment from an altarpiece in the collection of the Ulm Museum (Germany) can be attributed to the painter Joan Mates, one of the principal exponents of Catalan...
View Article“Adversus iudaeos” in paintings in the Gothic art collection
Cèsar Favà The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya’s Gothic Art collection has a varied group of works that enables us to see the different views that Christianity spread of the Jews in the early Middle...
View ArticleGold and Gilding in Medieval Art
Mireia Mestre The properties of gold, the bright yellow colour, the ductility and the fact of it being immutable, have been ideal, not just for minting coinage, but also for its use in the arts of...
View ArticleA Gothic panel by Lluís Dalmau, a new addition to the museum’s collection
Cèsar Favà On 31 May the Decapitation of Saint Baudilus, by Lluís Dalmau, originally in Sant Boi de Llobregat, was sold at auction and purchased by the museum thanks to funding by the Palarq...
View ArticleChristmas scenes at the Museu Nacional
Martí Casas As the Christmas festivities approach, just about everyone at home is clear about which figures can’t be missing in a crib, just as it should be: the Holy Family, the ox and the mule, the...
View Article“Gothic”, the comic: The Making Of
The museum has jointly co-published with Norma Editorial the comic, Gothic, by the writer Jorge Carrión and the artist Sagar Fornies. In this they explore the Medieval Gothic Art collection of the...
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