Pere Oller I Rull

Place: Barcelona

Death: 1442

Biography:

Pere Oller (fl. 1394 - 1442) was a Catalan Gothic sculptor. He served as an apprentice on the choir of Barcelona Cathedral from 1395 to 1399. He then relocated to Girona, where he produced the keystone of a vault from the chapel of Pia Almoina and the tomb of Bishop Berenguer de Anglesola in the Girona Cathedral. Other works thought to be his include the tomb of Pere Roure (died 1413) in Saint Vicente, Besal. He was commissioned by King Alfonso V of Aragon to create the tomb of King Ferdinand I of Aragon (reg 1412-16) at the Poblet Monastery. The tomb itself is no longer extant, but some fragments survive. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has a sculpture of a mourner by Oller, from Ferdinand's tomb as does the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago. He is also attributed with the tomb of Bishop Berenguer de Anglesola, in the Girona Cathedral and the chapel of Sancha Ximenis de Cabrera in the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia.