Helios Gómez
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Barcelona · Founded 1934
The finest Romanesque murals in the world, lifted from Pyrenean churches and rebuilt apse by apse. Twelve euro, high on Montjuïc with the city laid out below.
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Helios Gómez
Helios Gómez Rodríguez (1905 to 1956) was a Spanish painter, anarchist communist activist and writer. Born into a working class Calé family, he worked as a painter for the Spanish anarchist movement from an early age.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
El Greco · 1595
Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a 1587-1592 painting by El Greco, one of several versions of the theme by the artist - others are now in Barcelona and Stockholm. It shows the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The work was once shown on a stamp produced by the USSR.
Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico · c. 1425
Saint Paul
Diego Velázquez · 1618
Virgin of the Councillors
Lluís Dalmau · 1445
The Virgin of the Councillors is a panel painting in oils by Lluís Dalmau now in the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. It was commissioned in 1443.
Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll
Master of Taüll · 1123
The Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll is a Romanesque fresco in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona. The fresco is one of the masterpieces of the European Romanesque, from which the unknown Master of Taüll takes his name.
The collections
Romanesque Art
With a series of important Romanesque murals, the Romanesque collection is one of the most important in the museum.
Gothic Art Collection
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Gothic art collection began to take shape in the early decades of the 19th century, when a movement was first launched to revive and conserve the important body of Catalan heritage, which had been seriously damaged in the wave of convent burnings that took place at around the time of the disentailment of church goods in the year 1835.
Renaissance and Baroque Art Collection
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Renaissance and baroque art collection comprises pieces of priceless cultural heritage that, unlike the collections at other great national museums in Europe, which were generally built up from royal and aristocratic collections, was established in Catalonia through the acquisition of local pieces and later complemented by donations and acquisitions from private galleries.
Modern Art Collection
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya modern art collection owes its origins to the 1888 Universal Exhibition, when Barcelona City Council installed what was then a modest collection of contemporary (for the time) modern art in the Palau de Belles Arts.
Artists
Spain · 1866–1932
Ramon Casas i Carbó was a Catalan artist from Spain. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, Catalonia, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, an
Spain · 1838–1874
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal was a Spanish painter known for works focusing on Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, and military painting of Spanish imperial expansion.
Greek · 1541–1614 · Spanish Renaissance
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.
Master of Pedret is the name given by historians to a Romanesque fresco painter active in Catalonia in the early twelfth century.
Spain · 1826–1894
Ramón Martí i Alsina was a Spanish painter in the Realistic style.
Artworks
Ascension
Francisco Camilo · 1651
The Tears of Saint Peter
El Greco · 1605
Saint Agnes
Massimo Stanzione · 1635
The Triumph of Day over Night Preceded by Dawn
Antoni Caba · 1882
The Spanish Wedding
Mariano Fortuny Marsal · 1870
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
Jusepe de Ribera · 1644
Portrait of the Painter's Wife and Children
Claudi Lorenzale · 1865
mural paintings from the Herrera Chapel
Annibale Carracci · 1604
The Mass of Saint Gregory
Diego de la Cruz · 1475
Plan your visit
Summer hours
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 8pm. Sunday and public holidays, 10am to 3pm. Closed Monday except public holidays. Winter hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm. Sunday and public holidays, 10am to 3pm. Closed Monday except public holidays. Confirm on www.museunacional.cat/ca before you travel.
Admission
12 euro general admission.
Getting there
Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc, 08038 Barcelona, Spain.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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