Dalmacio (or Dalmau) de Mur y de Cervelló (died 12 September 1456) was a Spanish
prelate
A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Minister (Christianity), Christian clergy who is an Ordinary (church officer), ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which me ...
of the fifteenth century.
["The Retable of Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló from the Archbishop's Palace at Saragossa: A Documented Work" by Francí Gomar and Tomás Giner, R. Steven Janke, ''Metropolitan Museum Journal'', Vol. 18. (1983), pp. 65–83.
] He served as
Bishop of Girona (1415–1418),
Bishop of Tarragona (1419–1431), and finally
Archbishop of Zaragoza
The Archdiocese of Saragossa (; ) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Zaragoza (Saragossa in English), part of the autonomous community of Aragón. The archdiocese heads the ecclesiastical ...
(1431–1456).
Dalmacio de Mur y Cervelló was born at
Cervera
Cervera () is the capital of the '' comarca'' of Segarra, in the province of Lleida, Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain. The title Comte de Cervera is a courtesy title, formerly part of the Crown of Aragon, that has been revived for Leonor ...
. He was a
patron of the arts
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, embellishing with
Gothic art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern Europe, Norther ...
the churches he served in. In 1426 he commissioned from the sculptor
Pere Johan (active 1418–1458) the alabaster and wood
retablo
A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. More generally ''retablo'' is also the Spanish term for a retable or reredos above an altar, whether ...
that still dominates the
Cathedral of Tarragona. He was buried in the
La Seo Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Savior () or La Seo de Zaragoza is a Catholic cathedral in Zaragoza (also known as Saragossa), in Aragon, Spain. It is part of the World Heritage Site ''Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon''.
The cathedral is located on the Pla ...
of
Zaragoza
Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...
.
Notes
Further reading
*Dimitroff, Katherine M
''Unraveling Christ's Passion: Archbishop Dalmau de Mur, Patron and Collector, and Franco-Flemish Tapestries in Fifteenth-Century Spain'' PhD diss. University of Pittsburgh, 2008.
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mur y de Cervelle, Dalmacio
1456 deaths
Archbishops of Zaragoza
Archbishops of Tarragona
15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Principality of Catalonia
15th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Kingdom of Aragon
Year of birth unknown