The Supreme Condemns the National Museum of Art of Catalonia to Return the Mural Paintings of Sijena to Aragon

The Conseller of Culture pointed out that it was "impossible" to comply with the Supreme's ruling without "irreparably harming" the paintingsThe Supreme confirms that Sijena's paintings must be returned to the monastery in Huesca The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, said this Thursday that the Supreme Court's confirmation of the sentence that obliges the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) to return Sijena's paintings to their…

The Supreme Court has just put an end to the dispute over the mural paintings of the capitular room of the monastery of Villanueva de Sijena, in Huesca, which for decades have been exhibited in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC). It has rejected the resources of the Generalitat and the MNAC to the ruling of the Provincial High Court of Huesca and it gives the reason to the Government of Aragon, so that those Romanesque frescoes of th…

The Supreme Court has confirmed the ruling of the Huesca Court that confirms the Aragonese property of the valuable mural paintings of the Monastery of Sijena, considered one of the jewels of the Spanish Romanesque. The judgement of the Civil Chamber obliges the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) to return to the capitular chamber of the Monastery of Villanueva de Sijena the works extracted from there.The application was filed by the Gov…

The Supreme has put an end to the long litigation over the belonging of the paintings of the capitular chamber of the Monastery of Sijena, giving reason to Aragon and allowing its...

Aragon has asked the Generalitat of Catalonia and its National Museum of Art to return the paintings of the Monastery of Sijena, considered one of the jewels of the Spanish Romanesque, after the Supreme Court has ratified the Aragonese property of the mural paintings.The High Court ruled this way on Wednesday, nine years after a court in Huesca confirmed that the Romanesque paintings had to return to the Aragonese monastery, after at the beginni…

The leader of the PSOE in Aragon and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has not ruled on the historic ruling of the Supreme Court that Catalonia must return the paintings of the monastery of Sijena to the monastery. Alegria's silence has been put into evidence by the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, on Thursday, who has also criticized the "egocentric" position of the autonomous PSOE in this matter.The general secretary of the PSOE in Aragon…