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Photograph a work in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Barcelona, Spain

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Images in the demo: Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll, Master of Taüll, c. 1123; The Spanish Wedding, Marià Fortuny, 1868-1870. Didier Descouens, Source credit: Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Apse photograph cropped and resized under CC BY-SA 4.0. The Spanish Wedding is reproduced from a public-domain file on Wikimedia Commons. Both are Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya works.

What the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya collection covers

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya brings medieval and modern art together in Barcelona. Its holdings include painting, sculpture, decorative arts and photography. Collection

The museum occupies the Palau Nacional on Montjuïc, built for the 1929 International Exposition. Its collection connects Romanesque mural painting with Gothic art and Catalan Modernisme.

Its collection strengths include Romanesque mural painting, Gothic art, Catalan Modernisme, and Photography.

  • Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem

    Ramon Casas

    Date
    1897

    Casas painted himself and Pere Romeu pedalling past the Barcelona skyline. The canvas decorated the Els Quatre Gats beer-hall.

    Read the museum record

  • Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll

    Master of Taüll

    Date
    c. 1123

    Christ in Majesty presides over this Romanesque apse painting. The fresco was transferred from Sant Climent de Taüll to canvas.

    Read the museum record

  • The Spanish Wedding

    Marià Fortuny

    Date
    1868-1870

    Fortuny depicts the signing of a marriage contract in an eighteenth-century setting. The museum acquired this painting by public subscription in 1922.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya invites photos without flash and domestic recordings in collection rooms, excludes temporary exhibitions unless indicated otherwise, prohibits tripods and selfie sticks, and asks the press and visitors with other needs to obtain authorisation through its Press department or information desk. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya photography policy

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