Barcelona - Finestre sull'Arte

Sagrada Familia, status of work illustrated. Many events in 2026 to mark the centenary of Gaudí's death

The Sagrada Familia outlined in a press conference the current status of work on the Temple and the next stages of its construction, centered on the completion of the Tower of Jesus Christ and the Chapel of the Assumption. A few months away from the ...
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Barcelona, two activists throw colored powder on Sagrada Familia. 600 euro fine

Two activists from the Futuro Vegetal collective threw colored powder on the facade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona yesterday to protest the complicity of various governments in the fires that ravaged the Iberian Peninsula this summer. The two ac...
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Barcelona, rear facade of Casa Batlló restored: reconstructed to original appearance

Casa Batlló, one of the most emblematic masterpieces of Barcelona's modernist architecture designed by the genius of Antoni Gaudí, has recently completed a major restoration of the rear facade and inner courtyard, which began during the...
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Andrea Mastrovito wins competition to create Sagrada Familia's Agnus Dei

The Museu Diocesà de Barcelona, also known as Casa de la Almoina, is hosting an exhibition until June 9, 2025, dedicated to the five artistic proposals conceived to create theAgnus Dei to be placed inside the cross at the top of the tower of J...
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Miquel Barceló, Cristina Iglesias and Javier Marín will design the facade of the Gloria of the Sagrada Familia

The council overseeing the construction of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has commissioned artists Miquel Barceló, Cristina Iglesias and Javier Marín to develop an artistic proposal for the design of the façade of the Gloria. These p...
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The Hermitage will not have its branch in Barcelona. The promoters will give up on the project

Contrary to what was planned, theHermitage in St. Petersburg will not have its branch in Barcelona. Designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito, who was awarded the Prizker Prize in 2013, the multi-level white building of more th...
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Major exhibition in Spain on Félix González-Torres, artist of queer identity

The MACBA - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona is organizing, from March 26 to September 12, 2021, a major retrospective exhibition on the great Cuban artist Félix González-Torres (Guámairo, 1957 - Madrid, 1996), who...
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Miroglyphics: the fantastic world of Joan Miró as a language to learn to read

The celebrated French writer and poet Raymond Queneau (Le Havre, 1903 - Paris, 1976) coined in 1949, in his essay Joan Miró ou le poète préhistorique, a new term to refer to the pictorial works of the Catalan artist Joan Mir&oacu...
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