(b Sant Celoni; fl 1427; d Barcelona, between 13 and 23 Dec 1452). Catalan painter. The name Master of S Jorge was coined by Bertaux to refer to the painter of the altarpiece of St George (Chicago, IL, A. Inst.; Paris, Louvre). This was the most spectacular of a group of works attributed to an anonymous artist who was recognized as one of the finest Catalan painters of the 14th and 15th centuries. His works made a transition between those of Lluís Borrassà and Jaume Huguet, and it was thought that he could be identified with Bernat Martorell, the painter recorded as most in demand in Catalonia between 1427 and 1452. The identification was finally proved by the publication in 1938 (Duràn i Sanpere) of the contract for the Púbol altarpiece of St Peter Enthroned (Girona, Mus. Dioc.; see fig. 2 below).

• Martorell, Bernat
  • Barcelona, §II, 1: Art life and organization, before 1500
  • Ramon de Mur
  • Spain, §III, 1(iii): Painting and graphic arts, before c 1500: Gothic
  • attributions
    • Frame, §VIII, 1(ii)(a): Spanish Gothic retables: Establishment of the form
    • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of S Marco
  • works
    • Barcelona, §IV, 1: Cathedral
    • Dress, §V, 1(ii): Southern Europe, 15th century
    • Martorell, Bohigas, Mackay