Ramón Destorrents

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Ramón Destorrents was a Catalan mid-14th century painter and miniaturist. He was influenced by the Sienese

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. Numerous works, once assigned to other painters or anonymous, have been recently attributed to Destorrents, such a polyptych in the church of

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. In 1351, at the death of

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, he was named court miniaturist of

Peter IV of Aragon Peter IV (Catalan: ''Pere IV d'Aragó;'' Aragonese; ''Pero IV d'Aragón;'' 5 September 1319 – 6 January 1387), called the Ceremonious (Catalan: ''El Cerimoniós''; Aragonese: ''el Ceremonioso''), was from 1336 until his death the king of ...

. Pere Serra was a member of Destorrents' workshop. His other works include a

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in the church of Santa Maria of Iravalls (1360), showing the influence of

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, and retablos for the royal palace in

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and

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(chapel of the

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), and for the

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