Damià Forment

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Altarpiece of the Basílica del Pilar , Saragossa (1509–1511)
Altarpiece in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1537–1540)

Damià Forment or Spanish Damián Forment (* around 1480 in Valencia (?); † around 1540 in Santo Domingo de la Calzada ) was the most important Spanish sculptor of the 16th century. Little reliable data is known about his life and work.

biography

Possibly born in Valencia, he received - according to the not undisputed opinion of some researchers - important stimuli for his later artistic work during a trip to Italy, on which he is said to have visited the cities of Rome and Florence, among others. From 1500 to 1509 he seems to have worked in Valencia; then he moved to Zaragoza , where he spent most of his life and probably also had a workshop with auxiliary workers.

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In Damià Forments' work, which consists of alabaster and wood carvings , the figure style and spatial conception of late Gothic and Renaissance meet . Some of the twisted and stretched figures in his late work already seem to hint at the Mannerist conception of art . None of his works are signed, most of them were ascribed to him or are linked to his name in documents that have been preserved (contracts, accounts, etc.).

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literature

  • Carmen Morte García, Margarita Castillo Montolar: El esplendor del Renacimiento en Aragón . Exhibition catalog of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao , 2009, ISBN 978-84-8380-183-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Forment, Damià
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forment, Damián (Spanish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Valencia
DATE OF DEATH around 1540
Place of death Santo Domingo de la Calzada