The museum at Placa de Espanya, at the bottom of Montjuic.
View from the museum steps. The strange cranes are for the European Athletic Championships opening ceremony.
Have to have lunch before I see the art. The view from the restaurant was amazing and so was the gazpacho.
The Neo-Classical dome of the second floor galleries.
I won't bore you with too much information or photography here, but this museum has an amazing collection of Catalunyan Medieval art. I was amazed to learn about art and this time period from the perspective of Catalunya.
In order to keep the original frescoes preserved the museum dismantled the original church paintings and reconstructed them in the museum. Frescoes disintegrate in uncontrolled conditions and this preserves them, plus gives you a context -- so the museum is filled with a dozen or so medieval churches. Catalan was one of the only places to paint the inside of their churches in the middle ages.
I loved the Gothic sculpture room.
Amazing art from the Netherlands.
Amazing ancient Hellenistic sculpture.
There were also countless amazing modernist works, but I couldn't take a pictures of them. I snuck this one. I found a new favorite artist Ramon Casas (his name is linked, click on it to see his work). Me encanta.
There were awful paintings too. I have a hard time explaining what bad art looks like, so from now on I am just going to show this painting.
There were creepy Baroque sculptures of Jesus (example).
There was an amazing view from the museum steps -- Sarria in the distance.
There were sweet reminders of how wonderful this place is: share this moment.
