Miquel Blay. The path to success
The Girona Art Museum is hosting, until April 17, 2017 , the temporary exhibition “Miquel Blay. The path to success. (1866-1936)”, which culminates the program of events organized during this year to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the sculptor’s birth . The exhibition delves into the artist’s training period , from 1888 , when Blay […]
The Busquets brothers. A shared universe
The Busquets brothers and their work became key in the study of the second generation of noucentist artists in Catalonia and especially in Girona. Josep Maria, Lluís and Jaume, collaborators of the architect Rafael Masó, gave new impetus and value to works in applied arts, especially from the Galeria de Bells Oficis opened in Girona […]
Today is Prado’s turn.
A traveling exhibition that presents relief reproductions of some of the most representative paintings from the collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, such as the Mona Lisa from Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop, The Forge of Vulcan by Velázquez or The Knight with His Hand on His Chest by El Greco and for Girona, the […]
Santiago Rusiñol in Girona
The Girona Art Museum presents, for the first time, a selection of works, paintings, photographs and texts that testify to Santiago Rusiñol’s connection with the Girona region, and especially with Girona city. The exhibition, which shows 26 paintings plus twenty drawings and photographs as well as documents and writings by Rusiñol, explores the artist’s Girona […]
Aplech, models in verse and prose. Portraits of Prudenci Bertrana
Between 1905 and 1906, Prudenci Bertrana made thirty-six portraits in drawings of Catalan writers, commissioned by the Girona-based publishing house Dalmau Carles i Cia. The portraits were to illustrate the reading book Aplech. Models in verse and prose of our Renaissance for use in the schools of Catalonia, Mallorca, Valencia, Roussillon . The exhibition served […]
Origins of a museum. The collection of Mossèn Valls
Mossèn Pere Valls i Vilà (Olot, 1848 – Barcelona, 1925) gathered, throughout his life, a large and heterogeneous collection that ranged from illustrations of matchboxes to small reproductions of plaster reliefs, as well as quality artistic works in various formats, including one of the best art galleries in the Girona area, with works by Vayreda, […]
Stained glass windows. The light of the Girona Cathedral
The Art Museum presents a small exhibition of a selection of the 14th century stained glass windows of the Girona Cathedral, currently kept in storage. These are true gems of medieval glasswork that filled the Cathedral with polychrome light over the centuries. For the first time in an exhibition and complemented by the Art Museum’s […]
First impressions. Girona woodcuts (17th-20th centuries)
The collection of woodblocks from the collection of the old Carreras printing house (1860-1952) and which is now kept in the Museu d’Art de Girona, is one of the most important collections of this kind in Europe. The exhibition presents for the first time a large part of the original wooden blocks that were used […]
Josep Aragay, Noucentist temperament
The Museu d’Art presented one of the largest exhibitions ever held around one of the lesser-known artists of Noucentisme, Josep Aragay i Blanchar (Barcelona 1889 – Breda 1973). An essential journey to discover the work and thought of a multifaceted artist who defended Noucentist ideals until the end of his life. More than 200 works […]
12 months – 12 works re-visions 2014
The exhibition served to bring together the 12 works presented during 2014 in the monthly activity “A month, a work”. Each month the Art Museum chooses a work from its collection to be prominently exhibited, accompanied by an article by a specialist. The exhibition offered the opportunity to view in the same space the entire […]