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Item Number: 118804
Title: Cataluña 1400, El gótico internacional
Author: Cornudella, Rafael (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788480432498
Description: Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 2012. 30cm., pbk., 278pp. illus., most in color. Spanish-Catalan text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: The MNAC is preparing its first large exhibition on one of the most creative cycles in the history of Catalan art, the one spanning the period in European Gothic art known as the 'International Gothic style'. This period, which began at the end of the 14th century and lasted until the end of the 15th, produced some of the most outstanding Catalan artists of all time, who have earned a place in the history of European art, as in the case of Lluís Borrassà, Rafael Destorrents, Pere Joan and Bernat Martorell. Catalonia 1400 will bring together great masterpieces like the four panels with narrative scenes from Bernat Martorell's Retable of Saint George, which is now kept in the Louvre. These panels probably came from the Chapel of Saint George in the Palau de la Generalitat. There will also be other complete altarpieces by Lluís Borrassà, Joan Mates, Martorell and Jaume Ferrer. Also forming part of the exhibition will be the two high points of Catalan Gothic miniatures --a type of work rarely exhibited in public--, the famous Missal of Saint Eulàlia, by Rafael Destorrents, which has not left Barcelona Cathedral for years, and Martorell's Psalter and Book of Hours, kept in the Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona. The exhibition also includes a very selective sample of sculptures, articles of metalwork and embroidery, the altar frontal and one of the dalmatics from the Sant Jordi set of liturgical vestments from the same chapel in the Palau de la Generalitat, which is being restored on the occasion of the exhibition. The MNAC's curators of Gothic art recently discovered that the embroidery on this set of vestments was prepared from pictorial models specially provided by Bernat Martorell.
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