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Date
30/11/1572
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AHPB 429/57
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Urban spaces mentioned
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The post-mortem inventory of the Augustinian canon Baldiri Vilar was drawn up on 30 November 1572. No address is given, but presumably he lived in the monastery, and his possessions were located in the rooms where he died, 'la cambra del terrat' and the 'sala'.  He had an Ecce homo, 'vn retaule vell de nostra señora dels angels', a retable of Our Lady of Montserrat, and a second retable of the BVM. At the auction of his possessions, begun on Friday 13 March 1573, these paintings etc. were sold to canon mossen Ruffet (presumably also an Augustinian), and a more detailed description is given of one 'post': 'vna post en la qual esta pintat nostra dona de montserrat i baig y ha vn preuere qui celebra missa ab escolans al entorn'; this was sold to Canon Ruffet for the relatively high price of 15s. It offers an early example of the tradition of painting the escolania below the image of the BVM of Montserrat. (See Tess Knighton, ‘Musical Representation in the Domestic Context in Early Modern Barcelona’, Quadrivium. Revista Digital de Musicología, 7 (2016), 5–18.)

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