Overview

• The Spanish Supreme Court ruled in May that the Romanesque murals must be returned from the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona to the Sijena Monastery in Aragón.
• Aragón’s government says restoration work finished by December 2018 and a new climate-control system meet international preservation standards for the frescoes.
• The MNAC patronage board, comprising representatives of the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council and the Culture Ministry, will convene next week to define its position on the transfer.
• President Jorge Azcón plans to request logistical cooperation from Catalan President Salvador Illa at this week’s Conferencia de Presidentes in Barcelona.
• Although fragments traveled to New York and London in the 1970s and ’80s, the full set of Sijena murals has remained at MNAC since the mid-20th century.