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A magnificent collection of Catalan Romanesque and Gothic painting and sculpture masterpieces, along with outstanding collections of archaeology, goldsmithing, weaving, wrought iron, glass and ceramics. A fund of exceptional value made up of more than 29,000 pieces.
No matter who you are or how old you are, there are many ways to discover what our ancestors were like, what they did, how they lived and what they thought, you can do it online or also in the Museum, where various participatory proposals await you to travel to the past with a vision of present.
The altar canopy from Sant Martí de Tost (Alt Urgell) is an exceptional work of Catalan Romanesque art, parts of which are conserved in two different museums. While the Museu Episcopal de Vic holds the front beam and the crestwork, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya conserves the painted wooden panel. In order to give the public the opportunity to admire, for the first time, the work as a whole, the two institutions have decided to produce this temporary exhibition. This represents the first step in a larger process of reuniting Romanesque works whose elements have been scattered around Catalonia, a project that was initiated by the Junta de Museus de Cataluña in 2000. The highly evocative exhibition ‘The painted heaven. The altar canopy from Tost’ has as its centrepiece the reconstruction of the original work. This reveals the very singular nature of the altar canopy, a liturgical furnishing whose function was to cover the altar and, as an attribute of power, symbolically represent the celestial vault.