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Painting
Recently the Self-Portrait by AntoniViladomat has been restored. The work was badly damaged because in 1814, during the First Carlist War, a bonfire burned in the middle of a square of Berga, alongside 262 pieces by AntoniViladomat and of his son Josep. An old restoration recuperated the face and the hands of the portrait. Now, the restoration has allowed us to recuperate part of the figure of the painter, that had remained hidden by subsequent repainting and by the frame, and to discover that it was a reused canvas, because underneath, the radiography uncovered the portrait of a lady, which was what was originally painted on the canvas.The comparison of this portrait with another that Josep Viladomat painted of his father and is conserved in the Biblioteca Nacional (National Library) of Madrid, allows us to confirm that the effigy corresponds to Antoni Viladomat. He appears dressed according to the fashion of the 18th century, with a wig, and drawn in perspective, in clear vindication of his intellectual facet.https://blog.museunacional.cat/en/viladomats-self-portrait/
![image for: Antoni Viladomat - Cap de frare (sant Bru?) (anvers) / Estudi de mà (revers) - Cap a 1730 [1]](https://www.museunacional.cat/sites/default/files/styles/resize_500x500/public/images/art_piece/first_gallery/61425/027102-d0r_080577.jpg "Antoni Viladomat - Cap de frare (sant Bru?) (anvers) / Estudi de mà (revers) - Cap a 1730 [1]")
![image for: Antoni Viladomat - Cap masculí (anvers) / Croquis de retaule (revers) - Cap a 1720-1740 [1]](https://www.museunacional.cat/sites/default/files/styles/resize_500x500/public/images/art_piece/first_gallery/61410/027098-d0r_081524.jpg "Antoni Viladomat - Cap masculí (anvers) / Croquis de retaule (revers) - Cap a 1720-1740 [1]")
Painting
This is one of a series of twenty paintings dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, illustrates the virtues of the saint from his birth to death. Until the Napoleonic invasion the series hung in the cloister of the great convent of Sant Francesc in Barcelona, next to the sea wall. Antoni Viladomat was the most important painter working in Catalonia in the first half of the 18th century. His aesthetic struck a chord in a society bent on regaining its social, economic and cultural dynamism after the shock of the War of the Spanish Succession.
