Master of Cabestany
( fl c. 113080). Sculptor, active in Italy, France and Spain. He is named after the tympanum representing the Assumption of the Virgin at Ste Marie, Cabestany (Roussillon). He worked in an idiosyncratic and expressive style, characterized by animated figures with stocky bodies, large hands and heads with distinctive features. His violent use of the drill is also characteristic of his work (see fig.). He was a prolific sculptor and evidently had a long career, working over a large area; sculptures have been attributed to him in Catalonia (S Pere de Galligants, Girona; Sant Pere de Rodes (Sp. San Pedro de Roda) and Sant Esteve dEn Bas), Roussillon (Ste Marie, Cabestany, and Ste Marie, Le Boulou), Pays dAude (Saint-Papoul, Saint-Hilaire dAude, Lagrasse Abbey and the Assomption de Notre-Dame, at Rieux-Minervois), Tuscany (SantAntimo and S Giovanni, Sugana) and Navarre (Errondo and Villaveta). The variations in quality seen in these works (e.g. Lagrasse Abbey and Villaveta) have suggested that the Master had an associate, but this would be surprising in an artist whose work is remarkable for its consistency and discipline. It also seems unlikely that a workshop was involved, because the style of the sculpture is very individual.
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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