Century: 19th

The champagne glass

Genre painting with great attention to detail and in the precious style, the brushwork is traditional of gallant classicist painting that we also see in Fragonard and Wateau. We see the theme of modernity in the new protagonists, the inspiration of Paris nightlife and the amusement offered by the urban setting and leisure. The style […]

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The Masrieras were a family of artists who ran their own goldsmith and jewellery business. They had ties to artistic circles and societies, both in terms of industry and business and culture. They were travellers with an interest in the latest trends. They travelled throughout Europe to the main artistic and cultural events of the […]

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Goldsmith, painter, stage designer and theatre director, he was the most famous member of the Masriera family. Each of the family members undertook a parallel artistic, literary and pictorial activity in their own personal way. The artist is best known for his work as a jeweller and particularly his contributions as an enameller.

Landscape

In 1848 he travelled to Paris, where he visited the Louvre and discovered the work of Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet, the greatest international exponent of pictorial realism. In addition to creating, he also undertook important teaching work, following the precepts of French realist painters and the work of the Barbizon school. His innovative teaching […]

The Burial of Christ. Sketch for a painting for the Cathedral of Vic

Josep Maria Sert’s worldwide success resided in his personal and grandiloquent compositions, which were very often completely symbolic, such as the murals of the League of Nations -now the UN- in Geneva, in 1935 and 1936.

Els peixos del cantó [The fish nearby]

Carrer de Premià de Mar [Street in Premià de Mar]

In modern art, urban landscapes are a substantial part of the artistic scene creating a landscape with traditional roots that wants to capture the natural environment. Painters are attracted to smaller towns that retain the charm of the past. In the case of Mediterranean populations, the impact of light on white walls offers immense chromatic […]

Landscape

Lluís Rigalt, professor and director of the School of La Llotja, is considered the first naturalist landscape painter in Catalonia and the forerunner of a school to which such important painters as Martí Alsina, Modest Urgell and Joaquim Vayreda belonged. His paintings are painted in oil, meticulous and elegant, straddling the idealized romantic landscape and […]

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