The Museum of Navarra (; ) is the art museum of Navarre, and is located on Calle Cuesta Santo Domingo in

Pamplona Pamplona (; ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Navarre, Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. Lying at near above sea level, the city (and the wider Cuenca de Pamplona) is located on the flood pl ...

, in the

Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...

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of Spain.

History

The museum is sited in the old hospital of 16th-century ''Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia de Pamplona'', converted to museum only in 1956. The origins of the collection are works obtained by a provincial Commission in 1844, and displayed in 1910 at what is now the ''Cámara de los Comptos''. To the right of the entrance is the facade of the church of the hospital. The exhibits in the four story museum is chronologically arranged, starting from prehistoric works to the 20th-century. Among its collections are: *The “Mapa de Abauntz”, a prehistoric engraving on a block with geographic signs *''Triumph of Bacchus'' first-century mosaic from the Ancient Roman town of Andelos, near Mendigorría *''Romanesque capitals'' of the ancient

cathedral of Pamplona Pamplona Cathedral or Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic church in the archdiocese of Pamplona, Spain. The current 15th century Gothic church replaced an older Romanesque one. Archaeological excavations have revealed ...

*The Leyre Casket, an ivory Mozarabic chest (1004/5) *Romanesque murals from San Martín in Artaíz *Romanesque murals from belfry of

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*Murals from San Saturnino in

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*''Gothic Murals'' (1330) from the Refectory of the

Cathedral of Pamplona Pamplona Cathedral or Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic church in the archdiocese of Pamplona, Spain. The current 15th century Gothic church replaced an older Romanesque one. Archaeological excavations have revealed ...

by *Murals from Gallipienzo and Olleta *''

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Renaissance Murals'' from the Palacio de Óriz depicting the War in Saxony of Charles V *''Statue of San Jerónimo'' by

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*''Ecce Homo'' attributed to Luis de Morales *Paintings by Vicente Berdusán *''Coronation of the Virgin'' by

Francisco Camilo Francisco Camilo (Madrid 1610–Madrid 1671) was a Spanish painter, the son of an Italian immigrant who had settled in Madrid. When his father died, his mother remarried, and Camilo became the stepson of the painter Pedro de las Cuevas.William ...

*''Annunciation'' by

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*''San José'' by Alonso del Arco *''Immaculate Conception'' by

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*''Still-life with Fish'' by school of

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*''Story of Genesis'' (1700), twelve paintings on copper by the Flemish

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, *''Portrait of Leandro Fernández de Moratín'' (c. 1790) painted by

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*''Portrait of the Marquis of San Adrián'' by

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In addition the museum displays works by artists from or active in Navarre such as

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, Caro,

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, Salaberri, Aquerreta or Manterola. The church is used to display retablos and religious art.Turismo Navarra
description of museum.

References

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