The Consecration of Saint Augustine in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona (Fig. 1) comes from the high altar retable of the church of Sant Agustí Vell in the city, whose paintings were commissioned from Jaume Huguet in 1463, but not completed until 1486.1¹ The panel shows the imposing figure of the saint in elaborate vestments presented full face, enthroned before a cloth of honour and flanked by a press of full-length figures, two of whom, symmetrically arranged, place a bishop’s mitre upon his head: this is Augustine consecrated as bishop of Hippo Regius. The viewer’s attention is caught by two prominent features: the dense array of individualised and characterful heads occupying a band in the top third of the painting, and the opulent decoration which involves a profusion of surface ornament. The jewels on the mitres and liturgical gloves of the principal figures, their rings, and the embroidery of their rich vestments, along with the heads of three croziers and the background are modelled in relief, built up from the ground of the painting, and gilded (Fig. 2).

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珍视 Jaume Huguet 的作品：一位画家和他的材料

巴塞罗那加泰罗尼亚国家艺术博物馆的圣奥古斯丁的奉献（图 1）来自该市 Sant Agustí Vell 教堂的高坛转台，其画作于 1463 年受 Jaume Huguet 委托，但并非完成直到 1486.1 ¹画板上展示了一位身着精致法衣的圣人的威严形象，全脸呈现，坐在一块荣誉布料前，两侧是一排全长人物，其中两个对称排列，将主教的尖角放在他的头上：这是奥古斯丁被祝圣为河马君王的主教。观众的注意力被两个突出的特征所吸引：密集排列的个性化和个性化的头部占据了画作的前三分之一，以及涉及大量表面装饰的华丽装饰。主要人物的头饰和礼仪手套上的珠宝、他们的戒指和他们丰富的法衣的刺绣，以及三个克罗泽尔的头和背景，都是以浮雕为模型，从画作的地面上建造，并镀金（图2）。