Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Hilltop museum housing the world's finest Romanesque mural collection, rescued from Pyrenean churches.
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This guide to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona traces the 1919 scramble to save Catalonia's Romanesque church frescoes, after an American art dealer stripped one Pyrenean chapel's medieval paintings and shipped them to Boston. You'll hear how the Catalan Board of Museums raced to keep the rest at home, hiring Italian specialists in a wall-peeling technique called strappo to bring entire church interiors down from remote mountain villages between 1919 and 1923. Listen for what these teams found waiting in the highest chapels of the Pyrenees.
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