We visited the MNAC in 2017, and were sufficiently impressed to spend two days there, and then a couple days more in the Pyrenees' Boi Valley, from which MNAC's world-class Romanesque art originated. We visited again April 22nd, and I took another 300 pix of the place and its collections. Comparing the current pix with the 2017 pix, I am forced to conclude that, once again, no matter how many times we visit a place, I take pretty much the same pix, of the same things, from the same angles. In 2017, I was using an actual camera and not a phone, so the best pix, probably, are from 2017:
also the Boi Valley posts from that year:
The following pix are of the out-takes variety in part, but there are a few things we didn't see or photograph in 2017.
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Helpful wood model of the former Catalan palace which the museum
now occupies; in the next post we do a rooftop tour... |
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First, the Romanesque church frescoes and other art from
the Boi Valley churches...Stoning Stephen |
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JC/God/Holy Spirit in the mandorla thing, flanked by the twelve
(12) disciples...hmmm... |
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| Most popular ways to persecute/kill Christian, heretics, et al. |
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| Still processing this one |
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| But who's counting [click to enlarge] |
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| Skull of Adam, from a crucifixion scene |
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| Fully clothed crucifixion for evangelicals |
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| And then there were eleven... |
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A whole room of Mary and bambinos with red
rouge cheeks and foreheads... |
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Most interesting: this is an actual window, not trompe
l'oeil, from which the sheep's head is protruding |
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Moving right along, exiting through the gift shoppe,
before the roof tour, lunch, and the Modern section |
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Probably the best of the artsy shoppes in Barcelona;
don't buy anything till you come here
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Now in the Modern section...Jardinera, by Lambert Escaler i Mila,
a sort of Green Woman bust; obviously knows something |
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Muy famoso and a personal favorite: Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu
on a Tandem, by Casas; Romeu had worked at Le Chat Noir in Paris
and wanted to start something similar in Barcelona...thus 4 Cats,
the cafe that was a meeting place for many of the Modernistas; Casas
was one of Romeu's backers; the painting was on loan somewhere
else in 2017; here is our 2013 visit to 4 Cats |
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| Among the several 4 Cats posters |
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| Lluis Masrera, Reflected Shadows, 1920 |
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| Maria Fortuny, Carmen Bastian, 1871 |
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| Ramon Casas, Self-Portrait, 1883 |
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| "Everybody look up!" |
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| Velazquez, St. Paul, 1619 |
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Maurice Quentin de la Tour, Portrait of Pierre-Louis
Laideguive, 18th century; learned notary |
1 comment:
We always look at the toes on statues to see if the second toe is longer, but don't think we have seen one where the little toe is so miniscule!
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