The “Museu dels Sants d'Olot” is a patrimonial centre with a clear target, that's to make known the craft activity about production of religious imagery in the city of Olot (Girona/Catalonia). An activity with an existence upper hundred years ago with a clear incidence in the city

When somebody visits the museum, is like to stay in a real workshop, in full activity. As well as to lump a large collection of saint's images and Holy Week steps, crib figures, decorative statues, “farándula” (cajolement), and other old and emblematic pieces, some of them from ancient and disappear workshops, and other from current enterprises.

The museum is placed in the neoghotic building, former head office from “El Arte Cristiano” (Christian art). The first workshop of religious imagery created in Olot by Joaquim Vayreda Vila, Josep Berga Boix and Valentí Carrera in 1880. Their main aim, it was to help and lead the pupils of Olot's Drawing School to find a professional job. Also, to dignify the incipient religious imagery that it was borning in those days.

The religious images made in these workshops are known as “Sants d'Olot” (Saints of Olot) and they are made by moulding with wood pulp from original models made by recognize sculptors. Stands out the glass eyes and the decoration of the image with paint in oil, borders and gilding, ensuing technical guidelines about the knowledge art of Saint Sulpice in Paris.

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