The section presenting the collection of Romanesque art introduces the viewer to works that illustrate the various artistic techniques and types that were developed in Catalonia during this period, from the 11th to the 13th centuries. The apse from Sant Pere in La Seu d'Urgell is one of the most remarkable examples in the groups of mural paintings, which are precisely those that award the collection its distinctiveness. Beside the apse we have samples of panel painting, stone sculpture, wood carving and precious metalwork, together with works executed in other techniques and characteristic objects from the Catalan Romanesque.

In their turn, coins and tombstones bearing inscriptions in Latin and Arabic introduce references to the historical context in which the Romanesque emerged in Catalonia, and to the coexistence of different cultures in this land. Finally, the group of stone sculptures reflects the formal evolution of this technique between the end of Antiquity and the 11th century, presenting examples taken from both the Christian and the Hispano-Muslim worlds of the high Middle Ages.

Altar Frontal from La Seu
d'Urgell, also known as the
Apostles Frontal

Apse from Sant Pere
in La Seu d'Urgell

Altar from Tavèrnoles

Mancús from the Reign of
Ramon Berenguer I (1035-76)

Caliphal Capital