Virgin of the Councillors

Painting by Lluís Dalmau

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Virgin of the Consellers

Artist	Lluís Dalmau
Year	1443–1445
Type	Oil on oak wood
Dimensions	316 cm × 312.5 cm (124 in × 123.0 in)
Location	Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

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.^[1]

Description

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. In 1443, Dalmau was commissioned to paint this altarpiece for the chapel of the City Hall. This work was a breakthrough in Catalonia on account of the format, the technique used, as it was painted in oil, and the skilful illusionism of a figurative space in which that year's five councillors, painted from life, are represented on the same scale as the Virgin and the Saints.^[2]