The Historian · Diego · Barcelona
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
The Romanesque apse paintings were cut from mountain churches in the early 20th century and brought here. You can argue that was cultural rescue or cultural theft.
The Romanesque collection alone justifies the visit. Twelfth-century apse paintings removed from Pyrenean churches and reassembled here — the most important such collection in the world.
— Diego, The Historian
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