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Museum of Garrotxa

The 18th century, textiles and the Olot School of Drawing

Gallery dedicated to the world of textiles.

Gallery dedicated to the world of textiles.

The Museum began its activity in the late 18th century, at a time when the growth of the population throughout Catalonia had resulted in an increase in cropland, buildings and trades. Traditional trades and the emergence of an initial kind of industrialisation led to great changes in Olot and the county.

A printing technique known as Indianes, from India. The prints were never quantitatively significant but, nevertheless, in 1782 Olot Town Council requested the creation of a school of drawing to further the printers’ training.

As a result of the ideas from the Enlightenment movement and the era of economic progress, the school was opened in 1783 and it immediately gave impetus to a wide range of activities. The first director was Joan Carles Panyó, who lived in Olot at the same time as Ramon Amadeu, a prominent sculptor from Barcelona who had fled from the Peninsular War. Both of them decorated churches and private houses in the town and bequeathed a legacy that is still visible today.

OBJECTS

<p>Dress of Our Lady of Guidance.&nbsp;Indianes&nbsp;print. Museum of la Garrotxa.</p>
Dress of Our Lady of Guidance
Dress of Our Lady of Guidance
<p><em>Bra&ccedil; de la gegantessa vella d&#39;Olot </em>(Arm of the old giantess of Olot), Ramon Amadeu i Grau, between 1816 and 1817.&nbsp;Cardboard.&nbsp;Museum of la Garrotxa.</p>
Braç del a gegantessa
Braç del a gegantessa
<p>No title (landscape), Joan Carles Pany&oacute; i Figar&oacute;, 1802 and 1840. Oil on wood. Museum of la Garrotxa.</p>

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