Pere Oller (

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1394 - 1442) was a

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sculptor. From 1395 to 1399 he served as an apprentice on the choir of

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. He then relocated to Girona, where the keystone of a vault from the chapel of Pia Almoina is attributed to him, as well as the tomb of Bishop Berenguer de Anglesola in the

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. Other works thought to be his include the tomb of Pere Roure (died 1413) in Saint Vicente, Besal. A letter of King

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(1416–58) to the Abbot of Poblet, dated 21 January 1417 states that Oller was commissioned to create the tomb of King Ferdinand I of Aragon (reg 1412-16), Alfonso's father, at the

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. The tomb itself is no longer extant, but some fragments survive. The

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has a sculpture of a

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by Oller, from Ferdinand's tomb as does the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago. Also attributed to him are the tomb of Bishop Berenguer de Anglesola, in the

and the chapel of Sancha Ximenis de Cabrera in the

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