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To know more about the Romanesque art

A triumph of colour.  The interiors of Romanesque churches were a major chromatic richness.  The decoration is based above all on mural painting and on panels, in which Catalonia is one of the wealthiest territories.  The presentation of this heritage in the rooms of the museum...

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The dragon

The bestiaries define the dragon as the biggest snake and of all the living beings.  In Romanesque times it is represented as an enormous and terrible snake: with an open mouth and prominent teeth, breathing fire, flaming eyes, horns, the clawed paws of a lion, wings, and a body closer to a...

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Saturdays with artists: Romanesque monsters with Aldo Urbano

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Exhibition "History of the hands"

History of the hands reviews some highlights of the cultural history of the hands and our tactile relationship with the world. It invites us to think about the forms of communication, knowledge and production that have...

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Historia de les mans

One work, 15 minutes

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Snowy landscape

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Isidre Nonell. Snow-covered landscape, 1896-1897

Nonell spent the summer of 1896 in a spa of Caldes de Boí. In Boí the artist closed a period dedicated to landscape and opened another in which the human figure was now the protagonist, inclining especially towards those more socially grotesque and marginal beings: cretins, gypsies, old men,...

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Altar frontal from Santa Maria de Taüll

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image for: Anònim - Frontal d'altar de Santa Maria de Taüll - Cap a 1200 (repintat el 1579)

Remains of a human figure from Santa Maria de Taüll

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image for: Mestre de Santa Maria de Taüll - Restes de figura de Santa Maria de Taüll - Cap a 1123

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