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''The Great Day of Girona'', originally ''El gran dia de Girona'' ((:əɫ ˈɣɾan ˈdi.ə ðə ʒiˈɾonə)), is a large oil painting (4.96 × 10.82 m) by Ramon Martí Alsina. 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〔(Número d'inventari 012084-000 )〕 and is exhibited at the Girona premises of the Catalan Government. 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 (Palace of the Fine Arts). To protect it from further damage, the work was rolled up and stored in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC). Seventy years after its deposit, the painting was restored between 2009 and 2010. == History == During the middle of the 19th century, history painting was highly regarded for its depictions of local heroes and patriotic events. Martí Alsina wanted to improve his reputation as a painter on a national level, despite the fact that he was already a lecturer at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona. One of the most direct ways of earning a professional reputation at the time was to win a competition such as the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (''Exposició Nacional de Belles Arts''), which was celebrated annually in Madrid. These competitions combined works of historical subject matter with epic and romantic content. In 1667, André Felibien, historian and theoretician of French Classicism, created a hierarchy of pictorial themes and ranked historical paintings in first place. Martí Alsina first participated in the competition in 1858, when he was awarded a third-class medal for one of his submissions entitled ''Estudi del Natural'' (Study of Nature).〔DDAA, 2011, p. 19〕 Later the same year, he presented a work entitled "''L’últim dia de Numància''" ("The Last Days of Numantia") outside of the competition, which was later purchased by the state for 3,000 pesetas and given to the Prado Museum.〔Reyero / Freixa, 1995, p. 182〕 In 1860, he submitted a landscape to the Exposició Nacional de Belles Arts and was awarded a second-class medal. Martí Alsina spent most of his life obsessed with themes such as the ''Guerra del Frànces (Peninsular War) and the Siege of Girona, ''creating such works as'' El somatent del Bruch'', ''La Companyia de Santa Bàrbara'' (The Company of Saint Barbara), ''Les heroïnes de Girona'' (The Heroines of Girona) and, his best, the ''Él gran dia De Girona'' (The Great Day of Girona). ''The Great Day of Girona'' took the painter most of his life and until his death to complete. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Great Day of Girona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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