| Catalonian painter; His Virgin of the Councillors, 1445, was painted for the chapel of the town hall but is now located in Barcelona, Museo de Arte de Cataluna. This is the earliest documented work in the Hispano-Flemish style (see also Baco, Bermejo). Reflecting the work of Jan van Eyck, this style replaced the older, Italian-based Gothic mode of Barcelona. It was brief in Catalonia but became the main style in Castile and the interior of Spain in the second half of the 15th century. Dalmau's contact with Van Eyck dates from 1431-6, when he and a tapestry weaver were sent by the king to Flanders to study the techniques of Flemish tapestry. |
