Gender: Religious painting

Saint George

Procession to Montserrat

Viaticum

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 […]

Magdalena penitent (Penitent Magdalene)

The collection of works by Antoni Viladomat comprises three landscape paintings of a series of saints: Magdalena penitent (Penitent Magdalene), Santa Maria Egipcíaca al desert (Saint Mary of Egypt in the Desert) and Sant Ignasi escrivint a la Santa Cova de Manresa amb Montserrat al fons (Saint Ignatius writing in the Holy Cave of Manresa […]

Maria Egipcíaca ermitaña al desert (Mary of Egypt hermit in the Desert)

The collection of works by Antoni Viladomat comprises three landscape paintings of a series of saints: Santa Maria Magdalena penitent (Penitent Saint Mary Magdalene), Santa Maria Egipcíaca al desert (Saint Mary of Egypt in the Desert) and Sant Ignasi escrivint a la Santa Cova de Manresa amb Montserrat al fons (Saint Ignatius writing in the […]

Sant Ignasi escrivint a la Santa Cova de Manresa amb Montserrat al fons (Saint Ignatius writing in the Holy Cave of Manresa with Montserrat in the background).

The collection of works by Antoni Viladomat comprises three landscape paintings of a series of saints: Santa Maria Magdalena penitent (Penitent Saint Mary Magdalene), Santa Maria Egipcíaca al desert (Saint Mary of Egypt in the Desert) and Sant Ignasi escrivint a la Santa Cova de Manresa amb Montserrat al fons (Saint Ignatius writing in the […]

Saint Severus giving alms

Committed to learning at his studio, Antoni Viladomat anticipates the modernities of illustration on the usefulness of the arts for the trades, when he decides to teach drawing and art education within a traditional context. He was a remarkable draughtsman, and he is one of the few artists of the modern period in Catalonia to […]

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 […]