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Updated:05/26/2022 15:31h
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The American Friends of the Prado Museum, in collaboration with the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, has recently acquired a table of Lluís Borrassà to donate it to the institution thus collaborating, once again, in the enrichment of its collections. It is a panel, 200 by 126 centimeters, corresponding to the central street of the altarpiece of Santa Marta, Santo Domingo and San Pedro Mártir, made between 1421 and 1425, from the chapel of Santa Marta de la Barcelona’s cathedralone of the last works carried out by Borrassà.
At the end of the 18th century, the monumental pictorial ensemble was totally dismembered and his panels became part of different private collections. The qualities of this table -relevance of the author, dimensions and documentation of the work- endorse its historical-artistic importance.
Its incorporation into the collections of the Prado Museum will mean an outstanding contribution to the representation of the Catalan gothic paintingone of the most active and innovative schools in the Iberian Peninsula.
Its author, Lluís Borrassà (c. 1380-1422), of whom the Prado preserves two panels -one of them entered with the Várez-Fisa donation-, was one of the best and most prolific painters of the Gothic period and, specifically, from the period known as International Gothic. The success of his creations meant that he was able to organize a large workshop in Barcelona that produced works, and especially large altarpieces, for all kinds of clients. Borrassà executed this work between 1421 and 1425, with extensive intervention by members of a large workshop, at the request of the pharmacist Guillem Despujol, a wealthy bourgeois linked to the world of health, something exceptional among the promoters of the time.
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