St.Peter’s Major Altarpiece (Terrassa) - Lluís Borrassà

St. Peter's Major Altarpiece is a gothic altarpiece, that was made by one of the most important international gothic painters: Lluís Borrassà, between 1411 and 1414. This altarpiece is located in St. Peter church in Terrassa (a city that are very near to Barcelona), that is part of the Seu d'Ègara, a notable set of the romanic churches. The St. Peter's Major Altarpiece is dedicated to the patron of the church: St. Peter. So that was the reason of the theme of the retable, the episodes of St. Peter's life. The problem is that in the 18th century the altarpiece was replaced by another neoclassical altarpiece, and the gothic altarpiece was mutilated. This is the reason that nowadays we only have the panels of the altarpiece. It is a problematic situation, because we have difficultes to do a digital reconstruction because we don't have the structure and the other parts of the altarpiece (the predela and the tabernacle). But there are different theorists that have been investigating the possibilities of the retable, these are Gudiol Ricart (1953), Ruiz Quesada (2005) and Alcolea Blanch (2012). At the moment, Museu de Terrassa have the 14 panels of St. Peter's Major Altarpiece, because there are 2 panels (located in the predela) that are in another museums (Fogg Art Museum and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) and another 2 tables that dissapeared.