#Museum of Montserrat

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Ramon Casas (1866-1932) "A Decadent Girl" (1899) Located in the Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain

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Title: Café des Incohérents Artist: Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (Spanish [Catalan], 1861-1931) Date: ca. 1890 Genre: genre art; interior Period: Belle Epoque Movement: Modernisme Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 80 cm (31.4 in) high x 116 cm (45.6 in) wide Location: Museum of Montserrat, Spain

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[bending-sickle]

there she is

Au Moulin de la Galette. Madeleine

Ramón Casas, 1892

Oil on canvas, 117 x 90 cm, Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain

[deivamedia]

Salvador Dali - Neo-Cubist Academy (Composition with Three Figures) (1926). Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain. To see more of his paintings, click the link in bio @deivamedia #deivamedia #onlinegallery #onlinemuseum #virtualgallery #artoninstagram #artoninstagram #artlover

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The painting presented is "Saint Jerome in Meditation", by Caravaggio, dated 1605. The work depicts Saint Jerome, one of the fathers of the Church, in a moment of reflection and penance.

Features of the Work:

Tenebrism:

The painting is marked by the intense use of chiaroscuro, a technique characteristic of Caravaggio, which intensifies the drama and emotion of the scene.

Realism:

Caravaggio portrays Saint Jerome with realism, showing his advanced age and the fragility of his body.

Symbolism:

The skull and the book are symbols of mortality and knowledge, respectively, elements that reinforce the theme of meditation and penance.

Historical Context:

Baroque:

The work is part of the context of the Baroque, an artistic movement that sought to express intense emotions and the drama of the human condition.

Caravaggio:

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known as Caravaggio, was one of the great masters of the Baroque, famous for his innovative and realistic style.

Interpretation:

The painting invites us to reflect on life, death and the importance of spiritual seeking. Saint Jerome, with his concentrated gaze and humble posture, represents the ideal of a man who dedicates himself to faith and the study of the scriptures.

Note: The painting is currently in the Montserrat Museum in Spain.

[kelpywheat]

CROZIER! CROZIER! CROZIER!

Francis Crozier is head of the history department at the university. He’s one of those professors that seems super scary until you get to know him. One of his specialties is naval history. He’s also got an entire section of his bookshelf for polar exploration. He loves telling Montserrat that if she doesn’t behave he’ll throw her like a ship’s cat (He would never). He loves going to the National Maritime museum. After he quit drinking, he switched to orange soda as his drink of choice (I will die on this hill). He and Blanky used to get in so much trouble together in school. Even now, don’t leave them alone too long, they will start reminiscing…. And possibly conspiring. Yes it’s true, his marriage proposal was rejected twice by his ex girlfriend, Sophia, but it’s fine. They’re friends now. Don’t worry, the full marriage proposal was barely out of his mouth before Fitzjames said yes. Francis thought James was insufferable at first. Obviously that didn’t last too long. It’s hard to hate someone when you’ve seen him try to ballroom dance with his dog to Sinatra.

I hope y’all like this one!

[pedripics]

do you have any recommendations for places to visit when travelling to Barcelona? I'm about to go for the first time!!

some of my barcelona recommendations

places:

La Sagrada Família

Park Güell

Casa Batlló

Casa Vicens

Casa Milà

Parc de la Ciutadella

Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (normally it's open and free entrance as well, and you can sit in the stands to sunbathe for a bit with a great view)

Port Vell

Passeig de Gràcia (for shopping)

Los Bunkers del Carmel

Mural del Beso

museums:

Fundació Joan Miró

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Palau de la Música Catalana

MOCO museum

Poble Espanyol

MACBA

neighbourhoods:

Gràcia

Barri Gòtic

Eixample (around Diagonal are very cute restaurants/ bars)

cafés

LULU & FLYN

Coffee Corner

La Cala

Syra coffee

La Bar Camila

TosTao Coffee

raw studio

restaurants

Honest Greens

Bar Eixample

Makamaka

La Pepita

Cañete

Tantarantana

Fino Bar

TKO Tacos Barna

Parking Pizza (they have multiple locations, at Marimón, C/València and Sótano you can make a reservation, at Passeig Sant Joan, C/Londres, Gran Via you can’t and it gets quite crowded so be there right when they open or be prepared to wait a little bit in line )

bars

Farola

Apriori

33/45 Bar & Gallery

other recommendations

19:28 (tattoo studio | absolute sweetest people, amazing tattoo artists, special prices for mini tattoos (@/1928minitattoos))

i wear dolls (jewellery store, where you can make your own jewellery/ permanent bracelets | it can get a bit pricier depending on what you pick, but the quality is really good, it's waterproof; can get quite crowded so be there right when they open)

palo market fest (it's only during the first weekend of the month, so best check their ig (@/palomarketfest)

Mercat dels Encants (only open on mon, wed, fri and sat; best check their ig (@/encantsbarcelona)

@/fleamarketbarcelona for flea markets and events

if you have a spare day or two, i'd 100% recommend a day trip

Montserrat (i am not a religious person at all, but it is one of the most magical and healing places I have ever been to)

Sitges

Blanes

Tossa de Mar

Sant Pol de Mar

Cadaquès

[useless-catalanfacts]

Bon dia. I am writing in English to make sure I get the feeling just right. Maybe this is not the right forum, but please know I'm asking this with nothing but respect and love. So, a few years ago I basically lost everything, and I ended up in the hospital as a result of a suicide attempt. For over a year I was convinced that I was never going to be able to leave my bedroom again, but after a lot of therapy and a small return to normality my friend managed to talk me into a super guiri coded trip to Barcelona. It was my first time being abroad since childhood (I'm Scandinavian). I don't drink alcohol nor do I like crowded places or heat, so while the group I travelled with did classic tourist shit I took some random train out to Terrassa, Cerdanyola, Sabadell and basically just found shadow or museums or some place to read. I had learned some basic Catalan before going, and I noticed that people really enjoyed that. Just by ordering tea I felt like I made friends, and locals offered to show me around or give me special tours of the museums etc. I've never felt more home, and I think I decided already there and then that this is where I wanted to be until forever. I live outside of Girona now, I'm decent in Catalan and I just started my PhD focusing on the political history of Catalonia. I'm a politically active leftist, and have really found a community here. Now, to my question: I want to get a tattoo, haha. I want to get something to honor my new home and celebrate this journey, plus also express some political alignment. When I ask my catalan friends they just laugh and ask why I would want to have a symbol of their "shitty" (said lovingly) country on my body. Their reactions make me worry it might seem like fetishism or appropriating, even if they mainly seem to find it funny. I would love to get a tattoo of the flag (maybe super simple, as in four lines and a star. Or even four lines that simply have the cutout of a triangle to show its the Estelada) but I worry I might be sending signals I don't fully understand. I was considering Montserrat or some other more... physical symbol. But a lot of them carry religious symbolism and that's not really what I'm getting at. I don't know. Maybe the very idea is disrespectful. I simply just need input from someone that's a) not my friend that will just laugh and b) knowledgeable in Catalan culture and codes. So if you have a take, I would be so happy to hear it. Thank you so much for your time.

Wow, thank you so much for all your respect, and I am very happy that you found a place to feel at home here ❤️

It would not be disrespectful at all nor signaling that you don't understand; all the opposite, it's a deep show of appreciation. I think your friends find it funny because it's unusual and, as you said, because they're your friends and friends always joke around with each other.

I honestly can't imagine anyone feeling like a tattoo like the ones you mentioned are disrespectful, fetishism nor appropriating. First of all because you have full knowledge of what you're deciding to tattoo and you are doing it from a point of appreciation, celebration, and also connection with an important part of your life. The only case I feel it's laughable is when people don't know what they're getting (for example, a friend showed me a TikTok where a foreign girl had gotten the tattoo "Besòs Mar" after the metro station in Barcelona for said neighbourhood at the end of the Besòs river —a neighborhood that doesn't have the best reputation, to put it lightly— and was showing it off pronouncing it badly and claiming it means "sea kisses" by her Google-Translate-level Spanish lmao. That's just stupid and will get her made fun of, but it's in every way all the opposite of what you're talking about).

All the options you mentioned seem completely okay to me. As always, everyone (especially Catalan people in this case) is welcome to add their opinion in the comments, but as I said I seriously can't imagine anyone taking an issue with it. I think people's reaction will be more of a mix of "wow!" and "aww ❤️".

I've been thinking of more physical symbols, I could think of a sickle, in reference to the reapers/els segadors, who were the poorest agricultural workers and marched to Barcelona in 1640 to kill the viceroy and to revolt against the monarchy that was restricting Catalonia's historical rights in favour of the king in Castilla. As you'll know, the reapers have become a symbol of Catalonia since then, and the folk song created during that war ended up becoming Catalonia's national anthem.

Painting Corpus de Sang, by Antoni Estruch i Bros (1907) which represents the Reapers' uprising in the Catalan Revolt (Guerra dels Segadors).

You could also do the shape of another mountain (Montserrat was a good shout but I understand the point about religious elements), you could do the Pedraforca or the Canigó, though the Canigó's shape isn't as recognizable and even less outside of Northern Catalonia. Maybe there's some place that you remember from your first trip or from your time here that you've enjoyed, or that you've seen often, a building or something else that you can do its silhouette.

I don't know, I'm saying ideas but the ones you mentioned in your ask were already good 😊

[hildegardavon]

Enric Monjo i Garriga, 1896-1976

La Inspiracio i La Immortalitat (Inspiration and immortality), 1952

Museum of Montserrat (Barcelona, Catalunya)

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source: @lionofchaeronea

Title:Café des Incohérents

Artist: Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (Spanish [Catalan], 1861-1931)

Date: ca. 1890

Genre: genre art; interior

Period: Belle Epoque

Movement: Modernisme

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 80 cm (31.4 in) high x 116 cm (45.6 in) wide

Location: Museum of Montserrat, Spain

[valdires]

Decadent Young Woman, 1899 by Ramon Casas (1866-1932), 46,5x56 cm. Museum of Montserrat

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BTW I'm having a GREAT time. The weather at Montserrat at when we got there was the best it could have been. We took a sky gondola up that mountain. I saw a goat! I thrive in the springtime sunshine. It's just that ive been in spain less than 24 hours and I already have blisters and back pain.

Oh and there was a mummy in the museum. Got jump scared. Had to flee.

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF OUR LADY OF MONTSERRAT (aka La Moreneta) Feast Day: April 27

The Catholic Church will observe the feast day of Our Lady of Montserrat, the popular Black Madonna of Spain.

Widely venerated in Catalonia, Spain, where devotion to the La Moreneta (Black Madonna) originated, as well as in Puerto Rico and Ecuador, Our Lady of Montserrat is well known for her miraculous intercessory powers.

Hundreds of pilgrims and devotees visit her major shrine at the foot of Montecristi Hill in Ecuador every year.

In Catalonia, Spain, where Our Lady has been widely venerated since the 12th century, the Shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat is a popular pilgrimage site. She is the Patron Saint of Catalonia, an honor she shares with Saint George.

In the country, the Our Lady of Montserrat Church in San Beda College, Manila was built in honor of the patroness of the Benedictine monks of Manila. Devotion to her is also widespread in Jaro, Iloilo City where a parish church has been erected in her honor.

According to tradition, the image of the Black Madonna with the Child Jesus was carved by St. Luke the Evangelist around 50 A.D. and was brought to Spain. An 18th century polychrome statue of the same image that was gifted by former president João Goulart of Brazil on the Papal election of Pope Paul VI in 1963, is also displayed in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy. Previously stored in the Vatican Museums, the image has been on display for Papal masses since the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI.

On September 11, 1881, the image was canonically crowned in accordance with Canon Law and was proclaimed as the patroness of Catalonia by Pope Leo XIII. Many pilgrims paid homage to her including Saints Vincent Ferrer, Ignatius of Loyola, Aloysius Gonzaga, Peter Claver, and Anthony Mary Claret.

The Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat in Barcelona is the founding monastery of the Benedictines in the Philippines. The first Benedictine monks arrived in the country in 1895.

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hi! going to barcelona in late february for a couple weeks and wanted to know if you have any recs for the area!

sorry this is so long i can’t shut up 😭😭

okay right off the bat, since you have a couple of weeks, put aside several of those days for costa brava, sitges, montserrat, and girona. i know the appeal is mostly in the summer for the beaches, but costa brava has some really nice hiking paths too if the weather is fine.

in barcelona proper, i recommend the entire gaudi circuit - la sagrada familia, park güell, casa batllo, casa mila, casa vicens. i’d prob set half a day for park güell just in case you wanna climb all the way.

for museums, i love the museu nacional d'art de catalunya up on montjuic and the way i would maybe do it is take the cable car up to montjuic, maybe pop into the castle, and then walk down towards the museum. then spend a few hours there and get out right in time for sunset. the olympic museum is really nice too on montjuic. also related to the olympics is olympic village. it’s just really vibey there and literally the one and only time in my life that i wanted to join a RUN CLUB ffs. oh and the picasso museum is really nice.

i LOVE gracia generally and i’d prob explore it around the time you’re going to park güell. i stayed in eixample and i really recommend it. the area around passeig de gracia is super bougie but on one of the side corners, there’s a really cute bookstore (genuinely cannot remember the name but you’ll know it when you see it) and also the best indian food i’ve ever had in my life (slight exaggeration).

the gothic quarter + barcelona cathedral are both very nice. you can honestly just loop from bishop’s bridge to ciutudella park to the arc to the cathedral. palau de la musica catalana is STUNNING but you either need to book a show or get into it in time for one of the tours.

a rooftop with a really good view of the sagrada familia is sercotel rosellon rooftop but tbh getting a reservation is a hassle, the drinks aren’t that great, and there’s a huge cancellation fee if you’re late so i don’t recommend unless you really want pictures.

for bars, paradiso and sips are the big two and i do think both are great. with paradiso, try and get that code early but if you don’t, mid day is prob the best time to go. you’re gonna need a reservation at sips and there’s a huge cancellation fee. the regular line never moved. however, my actual faves are monk and bobby’s free. monk is a speakeasy inside a grocery store and it’s got two rooms and both have different drinks and vibes. bobby’s free is a speakeasy inside a barber shop. the guy is gonna ask for a volunteer and he’s gonna threaten to cut your hair unless you answer a question. the popcorn drink is super fun. if you’re not scared of absinthe/el raval generally, go to bar marsella!! hemingway, picasso, and other famous artists went there and it’s such a cool piece of history that it’s worth it (i’d generally be a little bit more aware of your surroundings in that area tho)

clubs are lit if you get there around 3 am. if you get there earlier, be prepared to get hit on by 19 year old scandi boys. opium is fun but razzmatazz has the five floors. city hall is a club with techno stuff that was really fun too. if you’re up on montjuic late, la terrazza is inside a castle and it’s a cool venue. i really don’t know if club culture is different between summer and winter though.

personally i’d skip las ramblas unless you’re particularly keen on getting pickpocketed. same with la boqueria market. also you can pop into montjuic stadium without a ticket or a tour but im pretty sure it won’t be used for barcelona matches by february so idk what it’ll look like vs when i saw it, but i guess on the other side (if you want to) camp nou would be open by then.

have the best time!!! literally everyone in barcelona is so hot i was gonna lose my mind

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Ramon Casas i Carbó, (1866-1932). Decadent young woman. After the dance. 1899. Oil on canvas, 46,5 x 56cm. R.N. 200.397. Museum of Montserrat

I embrace the spirit of this painting