Introduction
Gothic art is characterised by the material richness and decorative profusion of the figurative arts in their several typologies and techniques: mural painting, panel painting, metalwork, enamel work, stone sculpture, wood and ivory carving.
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The different sections show the re-interpretation of the different European stylistic trends produced in Catalonia, and which are evident in quite characteristic sub-styles like Linear Gothic, Italianate Gothic, the so-called International Gothic, or that of Flemish descent, with the interesting counterpoint of non-Catalan works. Also, two sections are devoted to fourteenth and early fifteenth-century sculpture, and we also find monographic sections dedicated to painters or specific themes, such as funerary art, the evolution of the figure of the donor and the depiction of the Virgin Mary in European sculpture.
