Ferrer Bassa

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Three women at the grave (fresco in the monastery of Pedralbes, c. 1346)

Ferrer Bassa (* 1285-1290 in Tortosa , † 1348 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan painter of the Gothic .

The illuminator had been in the service of the Aragonese royal family since 1316 . Among other things, he was commissioned to paint two chapels and two crosses in the church in Sitges .

Bassa's clients were also aristocrats or high-ranking clergy, so that his works can mainly be found in churches and castles.

A well-known work by the artist is the cycle of frescoes in the Capella de Sant Miquel ('Chapel of St. Michael') of the Pedralbes monastery . The most famous of these frescoes is Three Women at the Tomb . It was created in the years 1345/1346.

Bassa is considered a pioneer of the art of the Italian Trecento in Spain. His style contained elements of both the Sienese and the Florentine styles.

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