Logbook · 14 places

Birth of Jaume Huguet

Valls, Alt Camp, Tarragona

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 4 Historical milestones · 3 Food and drink

Spain › Catalonia › Tarragona › Alt Camp › Valls › Birth of Jaume Huguet

Birth of Jaume Huguet

Historical milestone · Valls, Alt Camp, Tarragona

Image of Valls, not of the place itself.

Jaume Huguet was born in Valls around 1412 and died in Barcelona in 1492; he was the most outstanding Catalan Gothic painter of the second half of the 15th century, with a style that evolved International Gothic towards Flemish painting; he trained between Valencia, Tarragona and Barcelona. From 1448 he worked in Barcelona, where he set up a workshop that, after the deaths of Bernat Martorell and Lluís Dalmau, came to monopolise almost all Catalan altarpiece production, with members of the Vergós family among his collaborators. Much of his work was lost in uprisings that destroyed the churches that housed it; what survives are mostly dismantled panels, such as those of Sant Abdó i Sant Senén de Terrassa and of Sant Agustí. The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya holds his most important collection, with around 25 works.

1412-1492

Photo: Enric (CC BY-SA 4.0)

What to see and do in Valls