Picasso Museum district narrow streets
— narrow streets that have held shadow since the fourteenth century.
Not only on a wall.
Picasso Museum district narrow streets, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Carrer Montcada is a single medieval street where five Gothic and Renaissance palaces stand wall to wall, their courtyards now joined into the Museu Picasso. The lanes around it — Montcada, Princesa, the alleys of Sant Pere — are too narrow for cars and tall enough that the light slants in only at noon, then leaves the stone to itself.
The place, in three passes.
The Museu Picasso opened in 1963 on Carrer Montcada in the Ribera quarter of Barcelona, the medieval merchant district between Via Laietana and the Parc de la Ciutadella. The museum occupies five contiguous Gothic palaces — the Palau Aguilar, Palau del Baró de Castellet, Palau Meca, Casa Mauri, and Palau Finestres — built between the 13th and 15th centuries. It holds more than 4,200 works by Pablo Picasso, the most complete record anywhere of his formative years in Barcelona, including the full Las Meninas series of 1957.
Carrer Montcada was opened in 1148, when the Ribera was the working harbour of medieval Barcelona and the city's wealthiest merchants built their houses along it. The palaces share a single Catalan-Gothic plan: a stone street portal, an arcaded courtyard with an open external staircase, and a piano nobile on the first floor. The Palau Aguilar's courtyard, with its pointed arches and slim stone columns, is the most complete surviving example of fourteenth-century domestic architecture in the city.
The museum opens Tuesday through Sunday, closed Mondays. General admission is around fourteen euros; entry is free on Thursday evenings after five and on the first Sunday of each month. The collection is best read in chronological order, beginning with the Málaga and A Coruña drawings on the first floor. The Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar, the great fourteenth-century parish church of the Ribera, stands four blocks south and is open daily without charge.
