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Pere Serra was a painter in Gothic-Italian style, who was active in

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in 1357–1406. He was born into a family of painters, including his brothers

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, Francesc and Joan. Like most of the Catalan painters of the period, he was influenced by the contemporary Italian painting, especially from

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. He entered the workshop of

Ramón Destorrents Ramón Destorrents was a Catalan mid-14th century painter and miniaturist. He was influenced by the Sienese Gothic painting. Numerous works, once assigned to other painters or anonymous, have been recently attributed to Destorrents, such a pol ...

in 1357 and, together with his brothers, painted the altarpiece of the

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, now in the

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. Other works from Pere Serra include the ''Arrival of the Holy Spirit'' in the cathedral of Manresa (1394), considered his masterwork, an altarpiece with Saints in the

Monastery of Sant Cugat The Monastery of Sant Cugat (, ) is a Benedictine abbey in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in the ninth century, and under construction until the 14th century, it was the most important monastery in the county of Barcelona. Its ...

(1375), a ''Virgin with Six Musician Angels'' and ''Annunciation'' in the

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