Gender: Religious painting

Saint George

Procession to Montserrat

Viaticum

Saint Joseph and the Christ Child

A Baroque painter, his religious work remains rooted in the context of the traditional Baroque style, characterised by a sensual, theatrical, emphatic aesthetic and warm colours. Realistic language, charged with emotion and religiousness. Citing the book and catalogue by Dr Francesc Milalpeix i Vilamala, Antoni Viladomat i Manalt 1678-1755 – Vida i obra, “this is […]

The Last Supper

A depiction of the Holy Supper around a table with Jesus Christ and his apostles, at the time of the celebration of the Eucharist, with no added elements or landscape to distract from the scene. The most distinctive feature of this work is the apostle Judas’s pose looking towards the viewer. This painting clearly refers […]

Miracle de la vara florida de Sant Josep (The Miracle of the Flowering Rod of Saint Joseph).

This painting, which is quite well preserved, initially formed part of a series of 6 works, which were sold separately in the early 20th century. Miracle de la vara florida de Sant Josep (Miracle of the Flowering Rod of Saint Joseph) belongs to a series of work called Història de Sant Josep (History of Saint […]

Adoration of the shepherds

Prolific painter of the 18th century, his father was a gilder of religious altarpieces. He worked with an active workshop in Barcelona, at the service of the church, religious orders and many monastic commissions, as well as the new affluent social class after the War of Succession. The war marked a before and after in […]

The Burial of Christ. Sketch for a painting for the Cathedral of Vic

Josep Maria Sert’s worldwide success resided in his personal and grandiloquent compositions, which were very often completely symbolic, such as the murals of the League of Nations -now the UN- in Geneva, in 1935 and 1936.

Predella. The Passion of the Christ. St Miquel de Prats altarpiece

The predella of the Sant Miquel de Prats retable is composed of five panels with scenes from the Passion of Christ. Conventional representation on the part closest to the altar table and the tabernacle. Decisive moments are depicted such as the Arrest of Jesus, Christ before Pilate, Crucifixion, Piety and the tomb of Jesus. Considering […]

Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel at Mount Gargan. St Miquel de Prats altarpiece

Formerly attributed to the master commonly referred to as “Mestre de Canillo” [Master of Canillo], the authorship of the retable was discovered in 2008 when historians from the University of Girona came across the documents relating to the commissioning of the main altarpiece of the Sant Joan de Caselles church. Dating back to 1537, the […]