El mestre Aloi de Montbrai. Escultor del tres-cents català

This book is the result of having analyzed and matured the state of the question about Master Aloi (c. 1310-1382), one of the most active and notable sculptors of the three-hundred in the old Catalan-Aragonese crown, and having collected and codified the latest known news of his activity inside and outside the Principality. Organized by the Institut d'Estudis Gironins and the Catalan Institute of Research of Cultural Heritage, in 2019 a symposium dedicated to this sculptor originally from Normandy, who had to reach Catalonia in 1336, was held in the Sant Daniel de Girona monastery. Cohesion his professional course. Moreover, it has often been attributed to an exclusive or preferential role of an entrepreneur, of a workshop, while his status as a sculptor has questioned despite being, we insist, one of the active artists in the best documented Aragon crown of the time. Moreover, the diverse and often controversial proposals when making the catalog of his work have even led to denying a style of this Imatger teacher. The summons of the symposium had two objectives: first, to meet and restore the sculpture group of the Holy Burial and then to exhibit it in an ideal space of Girona, and second, to review the Corpus of work of Aloi in order to profile the artistic personality better, with proposals and reformulations that would help to achieve the objective of unleashing this authentic Gordian knot, in the medieval historiography of Catalonia. On the other hand, we know that Aloi frequented the lands of Girona at least from the beginning of 1339, where it carries out a continuous activity beyond half of the three hundred, which is explained, in addition to the numerous orders it received, due to the proximity of the Alabaster quarrels in Beuda (La Garrotxa) and the workshop that would have mounted between Girona and Castelló d'Empúries, necessary to organize the extraction of the removal of the precious material and the extraction of Castellón d'Empúries. Lapidi throughout the royal territories from the ports of Roses and Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

Pere Freixas i Miquel Àngel Fumanal (ed.)