Gabriel Móger or Mòger (1379/1384 – before December 1439) was a

Majorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

n painter, sculptor, and poet. He was employed primarily for work on

retable A retable is a structure or element placed either on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church. At the minimum it may be a simple shelf for candles behind an altar, but it can also be a large and elaborate structur ...

s and

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

s by the churches of Majorca. Though Móger's active painting career can be dated to 1426–38 on the basis of surviving documents, his poetic encounter took place some years earlier. A document of 8 March 1404 calls him ''minor xxv annis et maior tamen xx'' (less than twenty-five years old and greater than twenty). By 2 January 1414 he was married and the poem was most likely composed between those dates. Móger painted an "angel concert"-themed altarpiece, with two musicians on the

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and rebec, in an unknown year. In 1438 Móger was commissioned to incorporate an Early Netherlandish '' imago pietatis'' into the predella of the retable of the

high altar An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes. Altars are found at shrines, temples, churches, and other places of worship. They are used particularly in paganis ...

in the church of Santa Eulàlia in the Ciutat. The painter Gabriel Móger is easily confused with another Majorcan artist of the same name, who flourished between 1460 and 1509. Móger composed a poetic debate, or '' tenso'', with Gabriel Ferruç in the Ciutat.

Martí de Riquer i Morera Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos (, es, Martín de Riquer y Morera) (3 May 1914 – 17 September 2013) was a Spanish literary historian and Romance philologist, a recognised international authority in the field. His writin ...

(1964), ''Història de la Literatura Catalana'', vol. 1 (Barcelona: Edicions Ariel), 632. John G. Cummins (1965), "The Survival in the Spanish ''Cancioneros'' of the Form and Themes of Provençal and Old French Poetic Debates", ''Bulletin of Hispanic Studies'', 42:1 (January), 10, shows how the debate is a true ''tenso''. The poem opens with Móger's line ''Seny'En Ferruç, vos qui tenit procura''. The heart of the debate is Ferruç' badmouthing Majorcan ladies, whom Móger intends to defend. The women are so angry, he alleges, that they want to kick Ferruç to death with their cork shoes. Ferruç responds that he will not recant, even if it means death, since the ladies of the city would be only further vilified for killing a man who spoke the truth. Móger reminds Ferruç that the ladies he is insulting are distinguished women with the ''lonch cap diformat'', some type of hat, probably a kind of divided

hennin The hennin (french: hennin ; possibly from Flemish nl, henninck meaning cock or rooster) was a headdress in the shape of a cone, steeple, or truncated cone worn in the Late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. They were most common in ...

like those

Vicent Ferrer Vincent Ferrer, OP ( ca-valencia, Sant Vicent Ferrer , es, San Vicente Ferrer, it, San Vincenzo Ferreri, german: Sankt Vinzenz Ferrer, nl, Sint-Vincent Ferrer, french: Saint Vincent Ferrier; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Valencian D ...

condemned in his sermons. Ferruç alludes to Móger's occupation when he responds that at least his adversary can comprehend his reasons ''sense pintura ... larch presich'' (without being painted a long sermon). The women look to him like ''cogulhades ab lur cap mal pastat''. This is the crux of the debate: Ferruç finds the Majorca headwear makes the women look like crested larks (''cogulhades''). The debate concludes on a violent note, unusual for ''tensos'' of its time but in keeping with its general tone.Riquer, 633.

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Seny'En Ferruç, vos qui tenit procura
edited original-language texts {{DEFAULTSORT:Moger, Gabriel People from Mallorca Painters from the Balearic Islands Sculptors from Catalonia Poets from Catalonia Medieval Catalan-language writers Year of death unknown Year of birth uncertain 15th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon Catholic painters Catholic sculptors