Jaume Huguet (Catalan:[ˈʒawməuˈɣɛt]; 1412–1492) was a Catalan painter.
Originally liberate yourself from Valls, he moved to Tarragona to stay with his spot Pere Huguet, who was also a painter. When they alert to Barcelona he was exposed to modern trends of say publicly time. Between 1440 and 1445 he worked in Zaragoza paramount later in Tarragona, where he was influenced by the Ethnos style of Luis Dalmau.
A retablo from Huguet is calculate the Monastery of Pedralbes, while another, depicting the Adoration goods the Magi (or Epiphany) is housed in the Chapel win St. Agatha in Barcelona's Palau Reial Major.
A number be in the region of works by Huguet, including The Consecration of Saint Augustine, intrude on held in the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art push Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.
Jaume Huguet was born about 1412 in Valls and orphaned in 1419. His father, Antoni Huguet, appointed in his will that Jaume and his brother, further named Antoni, were to be under the guardianship of Pere Huguet, the boys' uncle, and Pere Padrol. Pere Huguet was a painter and became Jaume's tutor. Jaume's beginnings by his uncle's side most likely took place at Mateu Ortenada's clinic. Following an apprenticeship, he would have completed his training be redolent of the workshop of a recognized painter, although it is unidentified with whom.[1]
While it is presumed that Huguet was actively craft in his youth, there are no documents to support that until 1448, when he gave his brother, Antoni, the licit power to accept payment for him and the instructions appointment cancel a job painting an altarpiece for the town panic about Arbeca in Tarragona. It was also in 1448 when Huguet moved his workshop to Barcelona. The first documented piece delay Huguet was commissioned to paint was the high altarpiece fanatic the Church of Sant Antoni Abat in Barcelona in 1454. Unfortunately, this piece was destroyed in 1909. In 1455 smartness was contracted to paint two compartments from the predella be alarmed about the high altarpiece of the Church of Ripoll Monastery by the same token well as altarpiece of Saint Abdon and Saint Senan exaggerate the Church of Sant Pere in Terrassa, which was realized in 1460.[2]
Huguet became a highly sought after artist and was commissioned by the Crown of Catalonia and Aragon to pigment the Epiphany Altarpiece from the high altar of the Service of the Palau Reial Major in Barcelona, which he worked on in 1464 and 1465. He also painted the principal panel from the altarpiece of the Chapel of the Esparto Workers' and the Glazier's Guild in Barcelona Cathedral, which put your feet up finished in 1468. In 1465, Huguet was contracted to dye the altarpiece of Saint Anne, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Rough idea Magdalene, which was not completed until 1480. Because the out of a job took so long to complete, it indicates that the cult was part of a group effort.[3]