Saint Michael
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![image for: Jaume Huguet - Consagració de sant Agustí - Cap a 1463-1470/1475 [1]](https://www.museunacional.cat/sites/default/files/styles/piece_related_50_50/public/images/art_piece/first_gallery/38867/024140-000_18424.JPG "Jaume Huguet - Consagració de sant Agustí - Cap a 1463-1470/1475 [1]")
Description:
This panel was repainted in the 17th or 18th century because the original one was damaged, probably, by the heat of the candles lit by the faithful as an offering to the saint.The last restoration of this panel by Huguet was presented at the "Barcelona restaura" exhibition held in 1980 (Saló del Tinell). The catalogue card explains that an 18th-century oil repainting was removed in order to recover the Gothic polychromy underneath.
Painting
c. 1455-1460
214 x 136 x 6.7 cm
Long-term loan from the Retailers' Guild, 1940; acquisition 1971
Inventory number:
037759-000
Century: 15th
Subject: Religion
Tempera, stucco reliefs and gold leaf on wood
Central compartment of the altarpiece of Saint Michael of the Retailers. The MNAC keeps 5 more compartments from the same work. The altarpiece comes from the chapel of the Shopkeepers' and Retailer's guild, in the church of Santa Maria del Pi, Barcelona.
