El pintor Antoni Viladomat i Manalt (1678-1755)Biografia i Catàleg crític

Resumen

The thesis is a complete study on the painter Antoni Viladomat Manalt (1678-1755). He is one of the most famous spanish painters in the eighteenth-century. The first volume is a biographic revision related to the historiography and the previously unknown information of the historical archives. Includes also an analysis of his visual and figurative culture, and an study on the relationship between the painter and his nearer artistical environment and a study on his artistical personality in relation with the spanish and european painting. In the first volume, there is a chapter about his critical opinions. The second volume is a critical catalogue of his works. It is organized in individual reports, one for each one of the works. The writer considers that two hundred and fifty kept works, including drawings and paintings, are from the artist, and forty-one of them are previous by unknown. The catalogue also classifies the ruled out and lost works. The main contributions of the thesis, a part from the updating of the biography and the creation of the critical catalogue, are the location of his will, the revision of the relation ships between Viladomat and the artists of Carles dÀustria court, the proposal of a new chronology for the second decade of the XVIII century, a new interpretation of the lawsuit against the painters association of Barcelona, the revision of his interventions in Capella dels Dolors of Santa Maria de Mataró (the writer thinks that it belong to the painter Joan Gallart), the relationship with paintings of Juncosa family of the seventeenth-century or the importance of the learning in a traditional context.