The National Art Museum of Catalonia (Catalan: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya), also known by its acronym MNAC, is located in the city of Barcelona (Spain). Noted for its Romanesque art collection is considered one of the most comprehensive in the world.
The current museum was established in 1990 with the union of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1945, and the Museum of Catalan Art, which opened in 1934. The parts from these museums are adding a new section of coins, engravings and other funds from the Library of Art History. Later, in 1996, added a new department devoted to photography. At present (2006) the museum's collection has almost 250,000 items in the collections. In addition to temporary exhibitions and traveling, the museum also performs other functions as are those of the study, preservation and restoration of works of art.
The MNAC is a consortium formed by the Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and, since early 2005, the General Administration of State.1 The board of the museum are represented, in addition to government, individuals and private entities working with the museum.
The headquarters is located in the National Palace, a building situated in the mountain of Montjuïc, opened in 1929 for the International Exhibition in Barcelona. In addition, three institutions are part of the whole museum: Museum Library in Villanueva Víctor Balaguer i la Geltrú, the Regional Museum of Olot Garrotxa, and the Museo Cau Ferrat in Sitges.

Collection

Of all the outstanding museum collections of Romanesque art. The museum displays a series of murals that make it unique in the world. Also shown are various wood carvings, metalwork, enamels and sculptures in stone. Most pieces are examples of Romanesque art in Catalonia.
The Gothic period the museum shows pieces made by various techniques that serve to illustrate this historical period in Catalonia. In the section devoted to the Renaissance and Baroque include two tables of Bartolomé Bermejo, a Martyrdom of Ribera, Zurbaran, a Virgin and a famous San Pablo Velazquez, one of the few paintings of the artist kept safe outside the Museo del Prado. However, this section of the museum was incomplete and greatly improved with the private collection of Francesc Cambo and a deposit of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
Cambo Collection was donated as volunteers. Such works include paintings by Sebastiano del Piombo, Rubens, Portrait of the Abbot of Saint-Non Fragonard, two Venetian scenes Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and a curious mythological scene, Cupid and Psyche, by Goya.
The MNAC houses since 2004, works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. At first the works were exhibited in the Monastery of Pedralbes but was moved to facilitate visits by the public. Showing paintings periods from the Gothic period and the Rococo, with examples of Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Lucas Cranach, Ludovico Carracci, Canaletto ...
Since 2005, the museum also houses some works of Catalan art from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on deposit transferred free. Among them are works by Mariano Fortuny, Lluís Graner, Ramon Casas, Joaquim Mir, Anglada Camarasa Hermen, Joaquín Torres García and Antoni Tàpies.
Also recently, the MNAC has included several works by Pablo Picasso, among which include Woman with hat and fur collar, received in lieu of taxes. A unique painting of Edvard Munch is displayed as a loan since September 2007: Portrait of Lütken Thor, who was the lawyer of the painter.

Featured Works:
Romanesque (XI-XIII centuries)
-Pedret Circle - Apse of Santa Maria d'Àneu (excerpt)
-Taller de Urgell - Front of Seo de Urgel or Apostles
-Master of La Seu d'Urgell - Apse of Sant Pere de La Seu d'Urgell
-Pedret Master - Apse right side of Sant Quirze Pedret (excerpt)
-Master of Sant Climent de Taüll - central apse of Sant Climent de Taüll
-Master Taüll - Central Apse Taüll
-Teacher Judgement - Western Wall Fragment Taüll
-Anonymous - Batlló Majesty - Zone of the Garrotxa
-Anonymous - Front Esquius
-Anonymous - Apse of Sant Joan de Surp
-Master Avià - Front Avià
-Anonymous - Front Durro
-Anonymous - Baldacchino of Tost
-Master Baltarga - Front Baltarga
-Anonymous - Murals of San Pedro de Arlanza
-Anonymous - Front panel of the altar of Sant Romà de Vila
-Master of the Archangels - Front of the Archangels
-Anonymous - Altar Tavèrnoles
-Ribagorza Workshop - Cardet Front, Front Rigatell

Gothic (late XIII-XV century):
-Master of the conquest of Mallorca - Wall paintings of the Conquest of Mallorca
-Guillem attributed to Seguer - Altarpiece of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi
-Master of Baltimore - Annunciation and Epiphany
-Estopanyà Master - Triptych of San Vicente
-Master Sigena probably Pere Serra - Altarpiece of the Virgin
-Pere Serra - Our Lady of the Angels
-Attributed to Gonçal Peris Sarria - Altarpiece of Santa Barbara
-Gener and Lluís Guerau Borrassà - Natividad and San Juan Evangelista
-Bernat Jaume Despuig and Cirera - Fighting between angels and demons
-Bernat Martorell - Altarpiece of San Vicente, Martyrdom of Saint Lucia
-Joan Reixac - Altarpiece of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins
-Ramon de Mur - Virgen de la Leche
-Jaume Huguet - St. George and the Princess, Consecration of St. Augustine
-Lluís Dalmau - Virgen dels Consellers
-Jaume Ferrer - San Geronimo, San Martin de Tours, San Sebastian and Calvary
-Bartolomé Bermejo - Resurrection and Descent of Christ into Limbo
-Miguel Ximénez - San Juan Bautista, San Fabian and San Sebastian
-Fernando Gallego - Epiphany

Renaissance and Baroque (XV-XVIII centuries):
-Lorenzo Monaco - The Virgin and Child Enthroned with six angels
-Fra Angelico - Madonna of Humility
-Master of Frankfurt - Baptism of Christ Triptych
-Pedro Berruguete - Pope Gregory
-Ayne Bru - San Candido
-Pere Nunya - Retablo de San Eloy silversmiths
-Paolo de San Leocadio - sorry about the dead body of Christ
-Sebastiano del Piombo - Vittoria Colonna (?)
-Tiziano Vecellio and workshop - Woman in front of the mirror
-Lucas Cranach the Elder - unequal loving couple
-Jacopo Bassano - Calvary
-Luis de Morales - Ecce homo
-Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco - San Pedro and San Pablo
-Jacopo Tintoretto - Portrait of a gentleman
-Annibale Carracci - Herrera Chapel frescoes
-José de Ribera - Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
-Diego Velázquez - San Pablo
-Ribalta Francisco - Ramon Llull
-Francisco de Zurbaran - Inmaculada Concepción, San Francisco de Asis in the view of Pope -Nicholas V, pots Still Life
-Pieter Paul Rubens - Virgin and Child with St. Elizabeth and San Juanito
-Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto - Return of Bucentaur Ascension Day
-Giandomenico Tiepolo - The minuet, Leap
-Salomon van Ruysdael - Ships next to a village
-Francisco de Goya - Allegory of Love: Cupid and Psyche
-Luis Eugenio Melendez - Still Life with Apples, grapes, melons, bread, jar and bottle
-Jean-Honore Fragonard - Portrait of the Abbé de Saint-Non | Jean-Claude Richard, l'Abbe de Saint-Non, dressed in Spanish

Modern art (XIX-XX):
-Lluís Rigalt - Ruins
-Mariano Fortuny - The Battle of Tetuan, The Vicarage, The odalisque
-Ramón Martí Alsina - La siesta
-Modest Urgell - The call to prayer
-Joaquin Vayreda - Summer, Mowing
-Alexandre de Riquer - Composition with winged nymph before sunrise
-Dario de Regoyos - The downpour. Santoña Bay
-Santiago Rusiñol - Laboratorio de la Galette
-Joan Brull - Dream
-Edvard Munch - Portrait of Thor Lütken
-Josep Llimona - Grief
-Ramon Casas - Interior outdoors, Plein Air, Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in tandem
-Marià Pidelaserra - from the Montseny Mountains. Clear day ago
-Alfred Sisley - In Saint Mammès. Sun June
-Ricard Canals - Coffee concert, La toilette
-Hermen Anglada Camarasa - Granada, Le blanc paon
-Joaquín Mir - The Cathedral of the poor, stepped Village
-Isidre Nonell - Two Roma
-Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Women of people Constructive Composition
-Joaquín Sunyer - Cala forn
-José Gutiérrez Solana - The choir
-Josep de Togores - Girls Catalan
-Salvador Dali - Portrait of Salvador Dali i Cusi, father of artist
-Pablo Picasso - Woman with hat and fur collar (Marie-Thérèse Walter)
-Antoni Tàpies - Blackish Brown