Virgin of the Angels
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Description:
This splendid central panel and the two sections of the predella with saints (which must once have flanked a tabernacle) are all that remains of an altarpiece. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was painted for one of the chapels in the ambulatory of Tortosa cathedral, probably towards the 1380s. The compartment with the Virgin and Child surrounded by angels playing music is a very graceful and refined version of an iconographic type that was extremely popular at the time. Pere Serra, author of the altarpiece, came from a family of painters who grew to head the Catalan painting of the second half of the fourteenth century.
Painting
c. 1385
195.8 x 131 x 11 cm
Plandiura Collection, purchased 1932
Inventory number:
003950-000
Century: 14th
Subject: Religion
Tremp, dauradura i argentat sobre fusta
Central compartment of the altarpiece of the Virgin of the Angels. The MNAC also keeps the two side sections of the predella. The three panels come from Tortosa cathedral (Baix Ebre).