The great day of Girona, originally and in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

 El gran dia de Girona (əɫ ˈɣɾan ˈdi.ə ðə ʒiˈɾonə), is a large oil painting (4.96 x 10.82 m) by Ramon Martí Alsina

Ramón Martí Alsina

Ramon Martí i Alsina , was a Catalan Realist painter. He studied in Barcelona at La Llotja school of art under Antoni Ferrant, Claudi Lorenzale and Lluís Rigalt, among others. He made several trips to Paris in successive stages over which he came to know the work of Courbet, the French Realists...

. It is the largest easel painting in the history of Catalan art. The creation process lasted more than 10 years and was about to bring the artist to his ruin on several occasions. It is now part of the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya , abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is housed in the Palau Nacional, built for the 1929 World's Fair...

 and is exhibited on deposit at the Girona premises of the Catalan Government

Generalitat de Catalunya

The Generalitat of Catalonia is the institution under which the autonomous community of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Catalonia....

, in the church of the former Hospital of Santa Caterina.

External links

• El gran dia de Girona