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De Tiziano a Bassano. Mestres venecians del Museo del Prado
From Tiziano to Bassano. Venetian Masters from the Museo del Prado. Catalogue of the exhibit that allowed Catalan art lovers to contemplate part of the Museo del Prado's opulent collection of 16th-century Venetian painting. The time frame involved begins with the decade of 1530, when the first...
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Realisme(s). L'empremta de Courbet [Realism(s). The mark of Courbet]
The French Painter Gustave Courbet rocked the art world in the 19th century. Through his brush, reality entered painting: Realism was born. With the aim of tracing his footsteps in this country, the mnac is exhibiting a selection of his most outstanding works, most of which are...
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L'Esplendor de la pintura del Barroc
The premise of this exhibit was to render homage to all of the art collectors who, through their donations, contributed to the formation of the MNAC's Renaissance and Baroque section. The museum put on an exhibit bringing together fifty-six pieces by the foremost figures in European art and...
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Cent anys de paisatgisme català. Centenari de la mort de Lluís Rigalt, Ramon Martí Alsina i Joaquim Vayreda
The year 1894 saw the demise of the three outstanding Catalan landscape painters of the 19th century: Lluís Rigalt, Ramon Martí Alsina and Joaquim Vayreda. A special exhibit was organized to commemorate the centennial of that triple loss, accompanied by this catalogue tracing the trajectory of...
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Pere Daura 1896-1976. Pintures, dibuixos i gravats
Pere Daura (1896-1976). Paintings, drawings and engravings. Catalogue corresponding to the exhibition organized by the MNAC on the occasion of Martha Daura's donation to the museum of part of her father's work, the artist Pere Daura (1896-1976). The goal of this catalogue is to allow the reader...
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La Guerra Civil espanyola. Fotògrafs per a la història
The Spanish Civil War. Photographers who Made History. The catalogue for the exhibition conceived and prepared by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya-MNAC: 162 photographs, magazines and posters, from museums, libraries, press agencies, documentation centres, etc. Le Patrimoine Photographique...
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El descobriment de la pintura mural románica
A collection of papers on the reproductions of Catalan Romanesque mural paintings made at the very beginning of the 20th century. The research on the work of copyists such as Rafael Martínez, Jaume Llongueras and Joan Vallhonrat allows to know better not only the patrimony which has brought...
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L'Imaginari d'Eugenio Lucas. La influència de Goya a la poètica romàntica
An artist with a very fertile creativity, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (Madrid, 1817-1870) is one of the leading artists of the nineteenth century. An acknowledged follower of Goya, his drawings occupy a place of honour in the artistic production of his time.
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Els Ibers. Cultura i moneda
Exhibition catalogue that takes a look at the history and culture of the Iberians through their coinage, from the moment when coinage arrived in the territories inhabited by the Iberians and the first ones minted by them. It shows the varied range of issues in silver and bronze struck by these...
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La imatge del poder a la moneda
The name and symbols of the political community on the coins that it mints show the close relationship that exists between the right to issue currency and the sovereign authority of a State, which derives directly from the very essence of the coin. All through history, coins have meant more to...
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