The Romanesque Section of the MNAC is back!

After being closed for several months for restructuration of the display, the Romanesque Section of the MNAC has been finally reopened to the public.


Nonetheless, this is the most important collection by far there! You won't find such a large selection of Romanesque frescos anywhere else: they were carefully removed from their churches of origin in the Pyrenees before collectors with no qualms bought them for almost nothing to take them into their own countries. Then real size exact copies of the churches structures where built in plaster, to home the frescoes who were reglued there. Simply unique!
Plus that's not all, the Romanesque section also includes altar fronts (religious paintings on wood), crucifixes and cross descent groups (wooden sculptures) as well as silverwork.


The purpuse of the restructuration of the way the collection was displayed was simplyfing the understanding of this art period (the number of pieces of artwork has been reduced to a small number of selected pieces of the highest quality) as well as to create a more intimate athmosphere that remided that of the medieval churches. They were quite limited by the type of art that is displayed (they couldn't move around those huge plaster apses, of course!), but they made a beautiful job playing with the lights and the shadows and distributing some of the pieces in locations where it'd made sense they were if they were inside a real church.

Can't wait to be asked to take someone there on a museum tour!!!