Exhibition Brush Stories. The Huguets and the Renaissance

Exhibition Brush Stories. The Huguets and the Renaissance

Funding entity

Museum of History of l’Hospitalet

Period of execution

01/11/2023 - 17/10/2024

Amount ICRPC

€4,900

Participants: Dr. Adrià Vázquez and Dra. Irene Abril

Description

Monographic exhibition focused on the work produced by the workshop of the painters Jaume Huguet (father and son) at the Museum of History of l’Hospitalet de Llobregat.

The Barcelona workshop of the eponymous painters Jaume Huguet, father and son, was one of the most prominent in Catalonia in the last third of the 16th century. Currently, the career of the painters Jaume Huguet is documented between the years 1565 and 1607; the father, Jaume Huguet I, is active from 1565 to 1606, and the son, Jaume Huguet II, is active between 1594 and 1607. Throughout this period, and from Barcelona, ??they took on artistic commissions both in areas close to the Barcelonès, and in other regions of Catalonia at the time, such as Bages, Gironès, Garrotxa, Maresme or Rosselló. The language that characterizes their work becomes paradigmatic of the modernization of native Catalan painting in tune with the work of the “Italianized” painters who circulated in 16th-century Catalonia, whether by origin or training.

The exceptionality of the Jaume Huguet painters lies mainly in the large amount of preserved work, although most of it and due to the ups and downs that Catalan heritage has experienced over the centuries, can be found inside museums. A very prominent set of these works is currently kept in the Museum of History of l'Hospitalet, these being the painted panels from the altarpieces of Saint Roc and the Souls that were made for the parish church of Santa Eulàlia de Mérida, destroyed in 1936. The patrimonial casuistry of the paintings meant that this set of paintings, along with other works made at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, also from the same church, ended up under the custody of the Museum of History of l'Hospitalet.

The exhibition Brush Stories. The Huguets and the Renaissance Era aims to explain Catalan painting in the final stage of the Renaissance era (late 16th century-early 17th century) through the work of the family workshop of the painters Jaume Huguet, father and son. But it will also propose a journey through contemporary painting through the parish of Santa Eulàlia de Mérida, as well as the context of renewal of images that occurred in an atmosphere of intense religiosity, especially during the Counter-Reformation. Finally, it will also do so from the contemplation of the foreign masters who circulated in 16th-century Catalonia, and who were decisive for the artistic language of Catalan painting of the time.