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The Government of Aragon has announced that it will immediately request the forced execution of the Supreme Court ruling ordering the return of the mural paintings of the Monastery of Sijena, currently exhibited in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). This was confirmed on Tuesday by the Aragonese president, the popular Jorge Azcón, who has insisted that the court ruling will be carried out “by the good or the bad”.
The National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) presented yesterday at the judicial headquarters in Huesca the request for an incident of execution by means of a letter expressing its "technical inability to carry out this operation within the time limit established by the law of civil prosecution nor technically." In the letter, it also notes "the impossibility of carrying out the transfer of the mural paintings to restore the Capitular Hall of …
The autonomous executive has made this decision after that cultural space has transferred to justice its “technical inability” to move the frescoes without being irreparably damaged. The president of the Aragonese government, Jorge Azcón, believes that the Catalan institutions have wanted to deceive them, since both executives were collaborating in the delivery of those paintings.He insists that the main objective is that those frescoes do not s…
On Sunday, I went up to the MNAC. I wanted to see Sijena's paintings before the Supreme's sentence was executed so that they would be ripped off for the second time. I was a little disappointed by the small number of visitors. I expected a little more expectation, the truth. I might have chosen a bad time and day to go to the museum, but it may also be a sign of a certain disinterest of the general public in the face of the controversy for his r…
These are the paintings called Profanes, frescoes transferred to canvas that were not affected by the fire during the Civil War.
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