Master of Pedret is the name given by historians

Chandler Rathfon Post Chandler Rathfon Post (1881–1959) was an American art historian and professor. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard University (working from 1909 until 1950), focused as a historian of Spanish and Italian Renaissance art and iconography. Post ...

proposed the name on his book, ''History of Spanish Painting''. Harvard University Press. 1941 to a Romanesque

fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

painter active in

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

in the early twelfth century. The name has been given one of his most representative works, the right side of the apse of the church of San Quirze Pedret, now moved to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.MNAC Website

Some paintings

* Southern apse from Pedret - National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona * Central apse of St. Quirze Pedret-Diocesan and Regional Museum of Solsona Solsona *

Apse of Santa María d'Àneu In architecture, an apse (: apses; from Latin , 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek , , 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; : apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In Byzanti ...

(fragment) - Pedret Circle - National Art Museum of Catalonia * Paintings of Cape Santa Maria Aran, The Cloisters, New York. * Apse of Santa Eulalia Estaon and Surp-Circle-distant Pedret National Art Museum of Catalonia * Crucifixion in the church of Santa Eulalia-Estaon Diocesan Museum of La Seu d'Urgell * ''

Apostles from Àger The Apostles from Àger is a painting created in the late 11th century or early 12th century, currently exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. Description The church oSant Pere in Àger founded by Arnau Mir of Tost, who ...

Gallery

File:Pintures de Pedret- Absis sud de pedret. MNAC.jpg, Southern apse from Pedret File:Inauguració Sales romànic juny 2011 -Absis de Santa Maria d'Àneu.JPG,

File:'The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Maji', Romanesque fresco by the Master of Pedret from the apse of the Church of Saint Joan at Tredos, Lleida, Spain, c. 1100.jpg, ''The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi,''

apse In architecture, an apse (: apses; from Latin , 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek , , 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; : apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical Vault (architecture), vault or semi-dome, also known as an ' ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

, , now

The Cloisters The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights, Manhattan, Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated in Fort Tryon Park, specializes in European medieval art ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Master of Pedret Painters from Catalonia Romanesque artists Pedret Medieval Catalan artists 12th-century Catalan people Year of birth unknown