Master of Soriguerola

Master of Soriguerola: Saint Michael, detail from the altar of the church of Sant Miquel de Soriguerola, tempera on wood, end of the 13th century

The Master of Soriguerola ( Catalan Mestre de Soriguerola , Spanish Maestro de Soriguerola ) is an early Gothic painter who worked in Catalonia in the last quarter of the 13th century .

Naming

The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from the altarpiece he created for the Romanesque church of Sant Miquel in Soriguerola . Soriguerola is a small town, formerly part of the county of Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees, and the image that gives the master the name is now in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. The picture is an altarpiece , 96.3 centimeters high and 234.5 centimeters wide and depicts the Lord's Supper on its right and the Archangel Michael at the Last Judgment on the left .

style

Other works from the former Catalan counties of Cerdany and Conflent and the Ripollès region are assigned to the master of Soriguerola by comparing styles . There the master worked in his workshop, perhaps with the help of other painters. Their common style was recognized in art history even before the master was named.

The work of the master stands at the transition between Romanesque and Gothic art in Catalan painting. Although the master is still in a locally influenced Romanesque tradition, his painting is already noticeably moving away from the Byzantine style and taking up new influences from Western European painting. The master should have known altarpieces and book illuminations from France or Italy or also paintings from Mallorca, i.e. from the entire Kingdom of Mallorca founded in 1229 , to which Catalan counties also belonged.

Art historical importance

The works ascribed to the master of Soriguerola are not only noted in the art history of the region of Catalonia, the master is seen by experts as a crossover between the Romanesque tradition and the very early Gothic style, the so-called protogothic.

Works (selection)

Altarpiece from the Church of Sant Miquel in Soriguerola
- Sant Miquel, front side, today Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, inventory number 003901-00
- Sant Miquel, back, today Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, inventory number 035699-000
Altarpiece from the Church of Santa Eugènia in Saga, now the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Altarpiece from the Church of Sant Vicenç de La Llaguna
Altarpiece with the apostles Peter and Paul, from Vall de Ribes (Ripollès), today Museo Episcopal de Vic, Vic, inventory number 9694, 9695
Altarpiece from the church of Sant Cristòfol de Ripollès
- Christopherus, front side, today Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona, inventory number 004370-000
- Reverse with Peter and Paul, today Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona, inventory number 035700-000

gallery

Master of Soriguerola: Michael Altar, Catalonia, 14th century
Master of Soriguerola: Altar of St. Christopher, Catalonia, 14th century
Master of Soriguerola: Altarpiece from Santa Eugenia in Saga, Catalonia, 14th century

literature

Joan Ainaud de Lasarte: El Maestro de Soriguerola y los inicios de la pintura gótica catalane. In: Goya. Revista de arte. 2, 1954/55, pp. 75-82.
Marcel Durliat : L'Art roman en Espagne . Paris 1962, pp. 319-320.

Individual evidence

↑ Inventory number 003901-00. Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña (Ed.): Guía del Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña. Barcelona 2004, p. 80.
^ Chandler R. Post: A History of Spanish Painting. Volume 2, Cambridge MA 1930, pp. 26-28.
↑ Rosa Alcoy i Pedrós: El Mestre de Soriguerola. In: Antoni Pladevall i Font (ed.): L'art gòtic a Catalunya: Pintura. De l "nici a l'italianisme. Barcelona 2005, pp. 50-55.
↑ Marisa Melero: La pintura sobre tabla el gótico lineal: frontales, laterales de altar y retablos en el reino de Mallorca y los condados Catalanes. Barcelona 2005.
^ Marcel Durliat: L'Art roman en Espagne. Paris 1962, pp. 319-320; Marcel Durliat: L'Art dans le royaume de Majorque. Le debuts de l'art gothique en Roussillion, en Cerdagne et aux Baleares. Tolosa de LLenguadoc, 1962.
↑ Silke Tammen: Nuda veritas in monk robes. The development and development of a monk legend. In: Annette Simonis: Intermediality and cultural exchange. Observations in the field of tension between the arts and the media. Bielefeld 2009, pp. 43-68 (at the beginning).

Web links

Commons : Masters of Soriguerola - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Gemma Malé: Soriguerola, Master of . Entry in: Magistri Cataloniae. Database of the Department of Art i Musicologia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

personal data
SURNAME	Master of Soriguerola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mestre de Soriguerola; Maestro de Soriguerola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan painter
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	14th Century

[1] Inventory number 003901-00. Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña (Ed.): Guía del Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña. Barcelona 2004, p. 80.

[2] Chandler R. Post: A History of Spanish Painting. Volume 2, Cambridge MA 1930, pp. 26-28.

[3] Rosa Alcoy i Pedrós: El Mestre de Soriguerola. In: Antoni Pladevall i Font (ed.): L'art gòtic a Catalunya: Pintura. De l "nici a l'italianisme. Barcelona 2005, pp. 50-55.

[4] Marisa Melero: La pintura sobre tabla el gótico lineal: frontales, laterales de altar y retablos en el reino de Mallorca y los condados Catalanes. Barcelona 2005.

[5] Marcel Durliat: L'Art roman en Espagne. Paris 1962, pp. 319-320; Marcel Durliat: L'Art dans le royaume de Majorque. Le debuts de l'art gothique en Roussillion, en Cerdagne et aux Baleares. Tolosa de LLenguadoc, 1962.

[6] Silke Tammen: Nuda veritas in monk robes. The development and development of a monk legend. In: Annette Simonis: Intermediality and cultural exchange. Observations in the field of tension between the arts and the media. Bielefeld 2009, pp. 43-68 (at the beginning).