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1907-1933 Consolidation and early travels
In 1907, The Barcelona Museums Board creates the Special Library Committee. Two aspects should be mentioned about this period: on one hand the important efforts that Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Joaquim Folch i Torres made to consolidate the Library, and on the other the notable enrichment of the...
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II. Modernism(s)
During the second half of the 19th century, as a reaction to industrialised, mass-produced ornamental production, the traditional trades saw a revival all over Europe. Artists and architects designed everything from glass cases to paving, and craftsmen of all sorts –cabinet-makers, upholsterers, goldsmiths, ironsmiths, potters, glaziers, etc.– found a common home in an architecture that dreamed of conducting a new harmony in the arts and crafts as much as it yearned for the synthesis of art and life. Faced with a city riven by violence and the class struggle –remember Barcelona had a flourishing working-class movement in those days and was known around the world as the Rose of Fire–, the home became the ideal refuge for that bourgeois utopia.
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Neoclassicism, romanticism and realism. The three artistic movements that define the 19th century in Europe impact in Catalonia. The absence of neoclassical dramatics is recognisable in the works of Josep Bernat Flaugier and Damià Campeny. Romanticism that can be found in the...
Read more2005-2013 The Palau Nacional on Montjuïc
The Library reopens to the public on January 17th 2005 in the MNAC building. It is named the MNAC Library.
With regard to admissions, mention should be made of the commodatums of the library-archive of the Sala Parés and part of the material from the library of Joan Josep Tharrats. ...
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Fleuron
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2005-2013 The Palau Nacional on Montjuïc
The Library reopens to the public on January 17th 2005 in the MNAC building. It is named the MNAC Library.
With regard to admissions, mention should be made of the commodatums of the library-archive of the Sala Parés and part of the material from the library of Joan Josep Tharrats. ...
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Moulding
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Decorative element
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Ceiling panel
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