In the tradition of Mark Rothko in Houston and Henri Matisse in Venice, artist Sean Scully has adorned a chapel with his art. Scully's original plan to donate 200 of his artworks to Barcelona in a dedicated museum fell through after negotiations with city officials stalled. Instead, the artist was led to show his work at Santa Cecilia de Montserrat, a church within the medieval Montserrat monastery on the outskirts of the city.

The chapel is now showing Scully's site-specific stained-glass windows, frescoes, glass crosses and signature abstract works, including a personal interpretation of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.

The Dublin-born artist -- whose work is also now on view at the Palazzo Falier in Venice, the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, and the Museum Liaunig in Neuhaus, Austria -- has maintained a studio in Barcelona since the 1990s.