Jaume Serra (artist)

[1] Serra was a member of a family of artists active in the Principality of Catalonia in the fourteenth century.

The Serra brothers are characterized by the painting of tiny, stylized, slanted eyes and small mouth figures.

The Virgin from the Convent of the Holy Sepulchre (Zaragoza) and Martin de Alpartil or the Resurrection (with the portrait of the friar as a donor).

It is formed by a central table, the Virgin of Tobed, which are represented the nursing Virgin and Child with the future king of Castile Henry II of Castile as a donor, and its two doors, painted in tempera and altarpieces independent dedicated to Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist, whose stories are told in three successive records on the bench with various saints.

The set was kept divided between the Museo del Prado in Madrid, which had since 1965 the two side tables, and Várez Fisa collection, until in 2013 the collection has been donated to the Madrid museum main table, so that the altar could be made whole again.

Jaume Serra, The Descent Into Limbo , panel from the altarpiece of The Convent of Santo Sepulchro, Zaragoza