Ferrer Bassa ( 1285 – 1348) was a Catalan Gothic painter and miniaturist.

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He was active in the early 14th century, as proved by two documents which attest him working in two chapels at

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. Ten years later he worked for Alfonso IV of Aragon, executing miniatures for the manuscripts of the ''Uses of Barcelona'' and the ''Costumes of Catalonia'', showing a strong French and Sienese influence. His production increased during the reign of Peter IV of Aragon, especially under royal commissions, such as the ''Christ and the Virgin'' in royal chapel of Barcelona (1344). His main surviving work is the series of wall paintings in the St. Michael Chapel in the

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. It includes some twenty scenes basing on two main themes: the Passion of Christ and the Seven Pains of the Virgin, showing Giottesque influences, as well as from

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and

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. He has been attributed with the main role in the Catalan phase of the Great Canterbury Psalter. Also attributed to Bassa are a ''Coronation of the Virgin'' in the church of Bellpuig and a ''St. Bernard'' in the museum of Vich. His son Arnau was also a painter and collaborated with his father on several works. They both died of

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in 1348.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bassa, Ferrer 1280s births 1348 deaths Painters from Catalonia 14th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 14th-century deaths from plague (disease) Manuscript illuminators Medieval Catalan artists 14th-century Catalan people

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