Apostles from Àger: Thaddeus and James

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Location: 
Sala 003
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Circle of the
Master of Pedret
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Description:

Of the group of mural works known as the Pedret Circle, the paintings from Sant Pere in Àger bear a special likeness to the apse figures of the former Cathedral of Saint-Lizier, in Couserans (France), the only work from this group preserved outside the Catalan territory. Stylistically, the so-called Pedret Ciricle paintings are of an extraordinary quality, in this case with the two magnificent Apostles dressed in classical attire. The church of Sant Pere in Àger was the seat of a community of Augustinian canons which possessed vast territorial domains and was one of the main centres of political and religious power in the south of the Urgell County.

Painting

Finals del segle XI - primer quart del segle XII

280 x 144.5 x 4.5 cm

Given by the Friends of the Museums of Catalonia, 1958

Inventory number: 

065467-000

Century: 11th - i. 12th
Subject: Religion
Fresco transferred to canvas
Part of the decoration of the central apse, the principal and most complete of the total of 19 surviving fragments of mural painting, from the side apse and other parts of the building, most of them with few pictorial remains. From the canonical, and later collegiate church of Sant Pere d'Àger (Noguera).
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Mestre de Pedret - Apòstols d'Àger: Tadeu i Jaume - Finals del segle XI – inicis del segle XII