biography
| name: |
Amadeu i Grau, Ramon
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pronunciation:
[amadayoo ee grow]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1745–1821)
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| biography:
| Catalan sculptor, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. He served his apprenticeship with Pere Costa and, in Valls, with Lluis Bonifás. In 1770 he was admitted to the School and Guild of Architects and Sculptors in Barcelona, and in 1778 to the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. Among his most notable sculptures are Sant Bru (now destroyed) in the Church of Sant Jaume in Barcelona (1776), the Santa Anna group for the parish of the same name (1777), the Crist de l'Agonia, part of the Renter Collection of Mataró (1795), the Misteri de la Santa Espina (1796), the Sant Jeroni Emilia of the Casa d'Infants Orfes (1798), and the altarpiece of the Nativitat for the Church of Sant Felip Neri (1800). He is best known for his clay and wood figures associated with the Christmas crib. |
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