page_title: The Great Day of Girona
section_title: The Anatomy of a Painting
hierarchical_section_title: The Great Day of Girona / Exhibition / The Anatomy of a Painting
caption_attribution_description: Català: Exposició Anatomia d'un quadre, al voltant de l'obra El Gran dia de Girona al Museu d'Art de Girona
context_page_description: The Great Day of Girona, originally El gran dia de Girona, is a large oil painting by Ramon Martí Alsina depicting an important victory of Girona's defenders over the French during the Third Siege of Girona in 1809. Completed in 1864, it is the largest easel painting in the history of Catalan art. The creation process took more than 10 years and led the artist nearly to financially ruin on several occasions. The painting became part of the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and it is on permanent display in the Girona in an auditorium of the Catalan Government building.
  Due to the large size of the work, scholars suggest that it may have been an effort to compete with Marià Fortuny's Battle of Tetuan, a work commissioned by the council of Barcelona regarding the African War.
  In 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, the painting was damaged during a bombardment while on exhibit at the Palau de les Belles Arts. To protect it from further damage, the work was rolled up and stored in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Seventy years after its deposit, the painting was restored between 2009 and 2010.
context_section_description: Following the restoration and translation of the painting, an exhibition entitled "Ramon Martí Alsina. The Great Day of Girona. Anatomy of a Painting" was held from 23 October 2010 to 29 May 2011. The exhibition was organised by the Museum of Art Girona in collaboration with MNAC and was curated by Maria Lluïsa Faxedas, professor at the University of Girona and an expert on the subject. The objective of the exhibition was to investigate the painter's motives for realising the work and was held in three locations in Girona:  
  Josep Irla Auditorium: situated in the government of Girona, it is the definitive space where the painting is exhibited
  Plenary Hall of the Council of Girona: permanent exhibition space of the ‘Heroines of Girona’, another work by Martí Alsina
  Museum of Art Girona: exhibition of sketches and preparatory drawings based on the work
caption: 'The Anatomy of a Painting'
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