Participating in Google Art Project: opportunity or competition?
When Google Art Project appeared on the scene in February 2011, the Museu Nacional had only just made available the online collection and had published the catalogue of the works exhibited in the...
View ArticleGenesis and process of the digital catalogues in the Fundación Juan March
Montse Gumà Making all the art catalogues of the Foundation available from 1973 until the present day has been a major challenge and one that has been achieved in less than two years by a...
View ArticleThe “private life” of the museum: from the nineteen thirties to today
Montse Gumà We offer an illustrated tour in a jump of eighty years in the life of the museum. Flicking through the issues of September, October and November of the Butlletí dels Museus d’Art de...
View ArticleStill lifes on the museum’s collection
Montse Gumà, in collaboration with Valeria Nepeina Are you one of those people who stops and gazes at market stalls and the shop windows of florists and the more traditional grocery stores? When you...
View ArticleThe Palau Nacional, a building steeped in history / 1
Montserrat Gumà and Sandra Esteban in collaboration with Marta Mérida Montjuïc, the mountain where the Palau Nacional is located, was for many years a marginal zone of the city. The site of the...
View ArticleThe Palau Nacional, a building with a long history /2
Montse Gumà and Sandra Esteban in collaboration with Marta Mérida During the Spanish Civil War, the Palau Nacional was evacuated and the works moved to Olot and Darnius. In 1937 some pieces travelled...
View ArticleLluïsa Vidal, a woman artist in a world of men
Montse Gumà In 1905 a series of 25 postcards were published of the most important artists of the time, according to its author Francesc Serra Dimas, who portrayed them in a personal and intimate...
View ArticleNot all angels are the same: art shows us this /1
Montse Gumà This Christmas we propose for you a visit to our collections, enriched with some examples from other museums, in which you will be able to discover how angels are depicted in art. As Louis...
View ArticleSaints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael: a legendary iconography /2
Montse Gumà Saint Michael Up to now I have mentioned few names because, of all these celestial creatures, the only ones that have one are the archangels, a class apart among the celestial cohorts and,...
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