A Master of Catalan Gothic Splendor The history of Catalan art finds one of its most profound and luminous voices in the work of Jaume Huguet. A painter of immense spiritual depth, Huguet emerged from the town of Valls, where his early life was shaped by significant personal loss. Orphaned at a young age, he was brought under the guardianship of his uncle, Pere Huguet, a fellow painter who served as both kin and tutor. This early apprenticeship laid the foundation for a career that would eventually define the aesthetic of the late Gothic period in Catalonia. As he moved from Tarragona to the…