Jaume Huguet : A Study of Late Gothic Painting in Catalonia

From the little-known treasury of fifteenth-century Spanish art, Benjamin Rowland has brought again to life the significant figure of Jaume Huguet, the Catalan painter, whose work reveals a personality that is still attractive and vital. He dominated the art of his whole period, and came as near to establishing a tradition of his own as any other painter of the time, a fact which is explained as much by his own individuality as by his Improvements on the manner of his predecessors. Rowland, by his delightfully written text and his discerning choice of paintings for reproduction, has presented Huguet in a manner that will attract not only the historian and the technical student of art but the general reader as well. FOREWORD CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SETTING OF PAINTING IN CATALONIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY II. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CATALAN PAINTING III. THE ITALO-GOTHIC AND INTERNATIONAL STYLES IN CATALONIA IV. CHRONOLOGY AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUGUET’S WORKS V. THE RETABLE OF STS. ABDON AND SENNEN VI. THE ALTARPIECE OF THE CONSTABLE OF PORTUGAL VII. PERE HUGUET I: HIS RELATION TO JAUME HUGUET VIII. WORKS BY JAUME AND PERE HUGUET I IX. THE HUGUET-VERGOS QUESTION AND THE RETABLE OF ST. AUGUSTINE X. THE ALTARPIECE OF STA. MARIA DE LA MAR XI. THE THREE GREAT RETABLES BY JAUME HUGUET XII. THE TRIPTYCH OF ST. GEORGE XIII. DISCOVERIES AND CONJECTURES MINOR WORKS FROM THE HUGUET ATELIER XIV. REFLECTIONS OF HUGUET IN SARDINIA XV. GABRIEL GUARDIA XVI. VERGOSIANA NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS