Virgin of the Councillors
Lluís Dalmau · 1445
Lluís Dalmau
1429–1461
Lluís Dalmau (also spelled Luis Dalmau; Valencia?, c. 1400, Barcelona?, c. 1460) was a Spanish painter associated with the Hispano-Flemish style of the 15th century. He played a pivotal role in introducing Netherlandish realism into Catalan Gothic painting. He was active in Barcelona from 1428 to 1460 and served the king of Spain in an official capacity.
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Virgin of the Councillors
Lluís Dalmau · 1445
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The Virgin of the Councillors is a panel painting in oils by Lluís Dalmau now in the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. It was commissioned in 1443. The prestige attached to Burgundian courtly culture and the painter Jan van Eyck explain why in 1431 King Alfonso the Magnanimous sent his official painter, the Valencian Lluís Dalmau, to Flanders, to learn the new realist language firsthand.
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