Pere Serra, Mare de Déu dels Àngels i Sants (The Virgin of the Angels and Saints), around 1385
This splendid central panel and the two sections of the predella with saints (that in their time must have flanked a tabernacle) are the only conserved parts of the altarpiece. Dedicated to the Mother of God, it was painted for one of the chapels of the ambulatory of the cathedral of Tortosa, probably around the eighth decade of the 14th century.
The compartment of the Virgin and Child surrounded by musical angels is a highly delicate version and refinement of a type of iconography which enjoyed an immense fortune in that time.
Pere Serra [2], the author of the altarpiece, belonged to a family of painters who ended up leading the Catalan painting in the second half of the 14th century.
Virgin of the Angels [3], Pere Serra, circa 1385