Maistrus, picapedres e albaniles sardi nel tardogotico civile. Viaggi, scambi di modelli e interpretazioni popolari

Abstract

Maistrus, Picapedres and Sardinian Albaniles in the Civil late Gothic. Travels, Exchanges of Models and Popular Interpretations The master builders of Sardinia, in the time of the late Gothic, received the news from the Mediterranean regions from which important masters came to build new architectures. Influenced by these innovations, Sardinian masters entered the circuit of cultural exchanges and sometimes reworked, based on their previous training, solutions of different sign, evident in residential construction far from large urban cen- ters, as very evident lintels decorated according to local repertoires. Strengthened by this training, some Sardinian masters are documented in important construction sites in the Catalan regions or in Sicily. Their skills concern the construction in raw earth or the construction of large windows with lintel and arch, called sarde, documented in Sicily since 1350. The Sardinian masters, already the subject of attention in the history of studies, can now be better interpreted as specialists rather than simple migrants looking for work. They probably were hired for their innovative role anchored in archaic models.