{"id":44565,"date":"2025-07-29T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44565\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:37:11","slug":"catalan-national-assembly-protested-the-restitution-of-murals-to-aragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44565\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan National Assembly protested the restitution of murals to Aragon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA small protest broke out Monday morning outside the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as Aragonese technicians arrived to inspect a set of contested 13th-century murals that were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/romanesque-murals-return-sijena-monastery-court-ruling-1234747979\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered to be returned<\/a>\u00a0to the Sijena Monastery by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/spain\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spain\" data-tag=\"spain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAccording to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/cultura\/2025-07-28\/los-tecnicos-aragoneses-empiezan-por-las-pinturas-profanas-de-sijena-en-el-mnac-las-mas-faciles-de-devolver.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a>, fewer than 50 demonstrators\u2014organized by the Catalan National Assembly and joined by figures such as former Catalan president Laura Borr\u00e0s and ANC president Llu\u00eds Llach\u2014gathered to oppose the court\u2019s decision. Chanting slogans like \u201cIt\u2019s not justice, it\u2019s a plunder,\u201d the group failed to intercept the Aragonese team, which entered the museum discreetly through a side entrance.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-3301072_3fae61.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-3301072_3fae61.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, Georgia, December 31, 1969. The bas-relief figures represent Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis and generals Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson astride their horses. (Photo by Fox Photos\/Getty Images)\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe visit marks a significant step in enforcing the controversial ruling, which concluded more than a decade of litigation over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/romanesque\/\" id=\"auto-tag_romanesque\" data-tag=\"romanesque\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romanesque<\/a> murals, removed from the Sijena Monastery in 1936 after a fire during the Spanish Civil War. Though the works have been housed at MNAC ever since, the court found that the original religious order had never lawfully transferred ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Aragonese team, led by restorer Natalia Mart\u00ednez de Pis\u00f3n, began their work with the so-called profane murals\u2014less fragile sections that may be the first to move. Their inspection, which will continue through Wednesday, includes photogrammetry to assess condition and viability for transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMuseum officials, however, remain adamant that relocating the more delicate frescoes, especially those salvaged from the chapter house, could cause irreversible damage. MNAC has submitted filings warning the court of the risks and is expected to formally contest the execution order on conservation grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMNAC is proposing a phased approach, starting with sturdier works removed in the 1960s. But the fate of the core murals\u2014already mounted, reconstructed, and climate-protected\u2014remains uncertain, caught between judicial mandate and the limits of preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small protest broke out Monday morning outside the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as Aragonese technicians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,22825,35426,3662],"class_list":["post-44565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-heritage","tag-romanesque","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}