Acceptus

( fl Apulia, c. 1039-41). Italian sculptor. His name occurs in inscriptions on a marble pulpit in Canosa Cathedral and on the beams of similar pulpits at S Maria, Siponto, and the Sanctuary of S Michele at Monte Sant'Angelo. The inscription on the Canosa pulpit (PER IUSSIONEM DOMINI MEI GUITBERTI VENERABILIS PRESBITERI, EGO ACCEPTUS PECCATOR ARCHIDIACONUS FECI[?T] HOC OPUS) identifies Acceptus as an archdeacon who made the pulpit on the orders of the priest Guitbertus. The inscription on the beam at Siponto refers to Acceptus (DMITTE CRIMINA ACCEPTO) and gives the date 1039; the lectern at Monte Sant'Angelo is dated 1041, and the inscription on one of the beams identifies Acceptus as sculptor ([SC]ULPTOR ET ACCEPTUS BULGO). The workshop evidently included more than one sculptor, since another beam at Siponto is signed DAVID MAGISTER. Fragments of choir screens at Monte Sant'Angelo and Siponto, and the lion support and crossbeam of a throne at Siponto, indicate that the Acceptus workshop made several kinds of liturgical furniture.

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