Antoni Viladomat
Saint Francis and Saint Clare at Supper in the Convent of Saint Damian
Saint Francis Receives the Stigmata
Autumn
Spring
Winter
Summer
Birth of Saint Francis
A Simple Man Lays his Cloak at the Feet of Saint Francis as a Child
Saint Francis Receives the Order from the Crucifix at Saint Damian to Repair the House of God
Saint Francis Receives the Stigmata
Saint Francis Tortured by Demons
Saint Francis and Saint Clare at Supper in the Convent of Saint Damian
Saint Dominic de Guzmán and Saint Francis Embracing
Holy Family with the Everlasting Father
A Simple Man Lays his Cloak at the Feet of Saint Francis as a Child
Preliminary drawing of figures
Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Saint John
Still Life with Vegetables, Lemons, Rabbit, Partridges and other Birds
Still Life with Vegetables, Turkey, other Fowl and Wafers
Still Life with Vegetables, Grapes, Eggs, Walnuts, Scorpion Fishes and Sardines
Child Virgin between Saint Joachim and Saint Anne
Head of a Friar (Saint Bruno?)
Bernat de Quintaval Distributes his Riches to the Poor
Antoni Viladomat i Manalt (20 March 1678, Barcelona - 22 January 1755, Barcelona) was a Catalonian painter in the Baroque style.
Biography
His father was a gilder. He appears to have taken his first formal art lessons in the workshop of Pasqual Bailon Savall (c.1650-1691), a native of Berga like his father. Bailon's early death led Viladomat to become apprenticed with Joan Baptista Perramon (c.1664-1743).[1] He remained with him for at least six years; possibly nine. After that, he worked on the Church of San Miguel (demolished in 1868) with the painter and architect, Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena. By this means, he became acquainted with Italian art.[1]
In 1723, his opposition to the strict regimen imposed by the "Colegio de Pintores" (a Medieval-style painter's guild) led him to file a lawsuit so he could obtain the title of "licensed painter" and work freely. His suit was successful, but continued conflict led him to file another suit to retain the title in 1739.[2]
Vision of Sant Anthony. Antoni Viladomat Manalt, 1720
Vision of Sant Anthony. Antoni Viladomat Manalt, 1720
His long career enabled him to paint at almost all the convents and monasteries in Barcelona. His cycle of twenty paintings on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, originally created for the old Franciscan monastery from 1722 to 1724, are now in the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (National Art Museum of Catalonia).[1] This was his primary claim to fame and, together with a cycle of forty paintings on the Stations of the Cross and the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Santa María de Mataró, constitute the majority of his preserved works. Some paintings historically attributed to him, at the Old Hospital de la Santa Creu and the Jesuit Church in Tarragona, have recently come into question.[2]
In addition to painting, he taught drawing in his workshop. Apprenticeships there were eagerly sought after. His son, Josep Viladomat i Esmandia (1722-1786), also became a painter. He was best known for a cycle of paintings (in his father's style) on the life of Saint Thomas Aquinas.[2]
References
Brief biography @ the Museo del Prado.
Biography and appreciation @ the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Further reading
Joaquin Fontanals del Castillo, Antonio Viladomat: el artista olvidado y maestro de la escuela de pintura catalana del siglo XVIII, C. Verdaguer (1877)
Rafael Benet, Antonio Viladomat: la figura y el arte del pintor barcelonés, Editorial Iberia (1947)
Santiago Alcolea, Antoni Viladomat, Prensa Labor (1992) ISBN 84-335-4796-8
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