Prat de la Riba commissioned Torres-García frescoes for the monumental atrium of the Municipal Palace of Barcelona, a 15th-century Gothic palace and seat of self-government in Catalonia. During the next five years, he painted four large-scale frescoes and studies for another two. The magnificent paintings went beyond the utilitarian and decorative to become the new symbol of the Catalonia noucentista. "In one of the frescoes ... Torres-Garcia represented a gigantic Pan-god with a quote from Goethe's 'Faust' at his feet: 'The temporal is only a symbol'. "That is the key to all the poetics of Torres-García, the will to surrender to the ephemeral in order to reach eternity," explained Llorens. For Torres-García, classicism was the door of a better future, not a brake for modernity." Employing an "Iconostasis" composition, applied to a "pagan" subject matter adapted to a modern theme, demonstrating that classic is not solely associated to the Greek. He painted with orthogonal lines the rhythms of the structure used. This was an evolution he described in "El Descubrimiento de si mismo", and in the manifesto "Evolucionista" published in 1917. Torres-García would later use this same composition in his "Constructivist" works." What may be seen as a break in style of the figurative classical theme to the vibrant collage of images of "new" work is rather a deepening understanding the artist has for his work.