Lluís Dalmau. The Virgin of the Consellers, 1443-1445

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Lluís Dalmau. The Virgin of the Consellers, 1443-1445

 

Lluís Dalmau. The Virgin of the Consellers, 1443-1445

The prestige of the culture of the Burgundian court and of the painter Jan van Eyck explain why in 1431 the King Alfonso the Magnanimous would send his official painter, the Valencian Lluís Dalmauto Flanders, where he would be able to get to know the new realist language first hand.

In 1443, Dalmau was commissioned to paint this altarpiece for the chapel of the City Hall. Within the Catalan context this work was a breakthrough on account of the format, the technique used, as it was painted in oil, and the skilful illusionism of a figurative space in which that year's five councillors, painted from life, are represented on the same scale as the Virgin and the Saints.

 

 

Virgin of the "Consellers", Lluís Dalmau, 1443-1445