Master of Líria, 14th century

MAESTRO DE LLÍRIA, active in Valencia, late fourteenth century.
"St. Andrew, St. Catherine and St. John the Baptist".
Tempera painting on pine wood
Measurements: 92 x 134 cm.
Provenance: Los Angeles (USA), private collection (2022).
Attached report issued by Dr. Alberto Velasco Gonzàlez.

We are in front of three compartments of an altarpiece predella with the representations of St. Andrew, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Catherine of Alexandria.
St. Andrew, St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. John the Baptist, which in the report issued by Dr. Alberto Velasco Gonzàlez are attributed to the Master of Llíria, an anonymous painter still active in the region of Valencia at the end of the 14th century.
14th century. The work comes from a private Californian collection, information that is reinforced by a couple of pieces found in the
information that is reinforced by a couple of pieces of information found on the back of the compartments. The first is
an inscription in black ink that reads: "From G. T. & F. W. Oliver.
Picture Restorers. Fenway Studios. Boston, Mass."). Undoubtedly, it has to do with a restoration
restoration workshop and corresponds to the first half of the 20th century. The second is a label, more recent
label, related to a conservation-restoration intervention carried out in January 1986 by the company
1986 by the company A. C. L. inc. located in Santa Barbara, also in the United States.
According to the label, the intervention was given the registration number P-0431 and consisted of the application of microcrystalline wax.
the application of microcrystalline wax, plaster and Maimeri-type pigments for the stucco and chromatic reintegration, and the
chromatic reintegration, and a finish based on Acryloid (Paraloid) B-72. Recently the work has undergone a new
recently the work has undergone a new restoration that has consisted in the removal of Repainting inadequate
and a new presentation of the work according to current criteria.

The work retains its original gilded masonry, consisting of two pillars with twisted
and two architectural section pinnacles flanking the central compartment.
As is customary, this carpentry work reproduces motifs directly imported from the architecture, which is
architecture, which can be perfectly appreciated in the structure of the aforementioned elements,
in the teardrop-shaped decorations of the pinnacles, in the poly-lobed shapes of the three arches framing the upper part of the
the three arches that frame the characters on top or the tetralobulated oculi that appear in the interstices of these
in the interstices of these arches.

Stylistically we find ourselves before a work of great relevance. Its style clearly shows the painter's
clearly shows the painter's link with the Italianate substrate derived from the workshop of the Serra brothers, one of the most important
Serra brothers, one of the most important in the Crown of Aragon during the second half of the 14th century.