Pere ?a Anglada

( fl 1386-1407). Catalan sculptor and wood-carver. He has been associated with Girona (Sp. Gerona), but his style, particularly that of the figures peopling the choir-stalls he carved for Barcelona Cathedral (1394-9; pulpit completed 1403), reflects his travels in France and the Netherlands. ?a Anglada was primarily concerned with the direction of the cathedral workshops and with projects for the city of Barcelona. In the early years of the 15th century he carried out various works for the Casa de la Ciutat (the Town Hall), including the carvings in the Sal? de Cent and probably also the St Raphael on the Gothic fa?ade of the building. An Annunciation in the choir of Barcelona Cathedral is partly the work of the sculptor Jordi di Deu ( fl c. 1361-1418); but the decisive role is that of ?a Anglada, who gave an innovative refashioning, on International Gothic lines, to the subjects of this Italianizing master. In 1406 ?a Anglada was working on the alabaster tomb of St Olaguer in Barcelona Cathedral. The following year he received a commission for the Virgin centring the retable at Monreale Cathedral, Sicily, an indication of his widespread fame. Attributions stylistically linking the tombs of Arnau and Bertran de Montrodo in Girona Cathedral with the throne in Barcelona Cathedral as ?a Anglada's work have now been discredited, as has his authorship of two sculptures of St Peter (Barcelona, Gudiol priv. col.; Barcelona, Mus. Mar?s) and of a Virgin for the high altar retable of Santes Creus Abbey (Tarragona, Mus. Dioc.).

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