The Master of Castelsardo was a painter active in

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at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the sixteenth century. His name comes from a painting of the

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currently in the cathedral of Castelsardo; other than that, the Master's identity is unknown: he has been associated by some either with

Gioacchino Cavaro The Master of Castelsardo was a painter active in Sardinia at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the sixteenth century. His name comes from a painting of the Madonna and Child currently in the cathedral of Castelsardo; other than that, t ...

, a Sardinian artist from

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, or with Martì Tornèr, a

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n artist of

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n descent.From the official website of Castelsardo's Tourist Reception Center
His influence appears to be primarily

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and he perhaps started painting in

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around 1490; some scholars have identified him with Gioacchino Cavaro, though others dispute this. His other works included the retablos in the church of St. Peter at

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(executed between 1489 and 1500), in the church of Santa Rosalia at

, the ''Trinity Retablo'' (like the previous one, originally commissioned for the Frasciscan convent at

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, in Corsica, now in the

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References

Bibliography

* Carlo Aru, ''Il maestro di Castelsardo'', Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della R. Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, 1926–27. *

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