Master of Rieux

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Maître de Rieux: Sculpture by Jean Tissandier, donor of the chapel of Notre-Dame de Rieux, France, 14th century, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

The Master of Rieux ( French Maitre de Rieux ) is a Gothic sculptor in France in the 14th century. Between 1330 and 1350 he worked in the south-west in the area around Rieux-Volvestre near Toulouse . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after a cycle of sculptures that he created for the Lady Chapel of the Franciscan monastery in Toulouse. This was donated by Jean Tissandier, who was bishop of the Rieux diocese from 1324 to 1348, based in Rieux-Volvestre.

Eighteen figures from the Toulouse cycle have survived, sixteen of which are in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse and two in the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne . The tomb of Jean Tissandier created by the master is also preserved in the Musée des Augustins.

Numerous other works in the Toulouse and Languedoc area are ascribed to the master of Rieux . He is considered the most important Gothic sculptor of the 14th century in the region, his stylistic influence can be traced far into the regions bordering on the south. Typical of the master's style are a detailed depiction of hair and beard growth as well as the realistic folds of the clothes of his figures.

  • Jean Tissandier's tomb

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michèle Pradalier-Schlumberger: Toulouse et le Languedoc: La sculpture gothique XIIIe-XIVe siècle . Toulouse 1998, pp. 209-229.
  2. ↑ Michèle Pradalier-Schlumberger: Le maitre de Rieux et son influence en Navarre . In: Cuadernos de la Cátedra de Patrimonio y Arte Navarro 3, 2008, pp. 173-187.

literature

  • Ernest Roschach: Catalog des antiquités du musée des Augustins et des objets d'art du musée Saint-Raymond . Toulouse 1865.
  • Henri Rachou: Les statues de la Chapelle de Rieux et de la Basilique Saint-Sernin au Musée de Toulouse , 2nd edition. Toulouse 1910.
  • Barbara Mundt: The cycle of the Chapelle de Rieux and its artistic successor . In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 9, 1967, pp. 26–80
  • Michèle Pradalier-Schlumberger: Toulouse et le Languedoc. La sculpture gothique XIIIe-XIVe siècle . Toulouse 1998.
  • Jacques Baudoin: La sculpture flamboyante en Rouergue, Languedoc . Nonette 2003.
  • Michèle Pradalier-Schlumberger: Le maitre de Rieux et son influence en Navarre . In: Cuadernos de la Cátedra de Patrimonio y Arte Navarro Vol. 3, 2008, pp. 173-187.
personal data
SURNAME Master of Rieux
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maitre de Rieux
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century