Museo dell'intreccio mediterraneo di Castelsardo

"Master of Castelsardo" is the name given to an unknown painter, or rather to a workshop as the most recent studies say, who worked in Sardinia between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century.

For historians it represents an enigma both the person behind this name, but also the presence of a painter of such great quality in Sardinia at the end of '400, the periphery of the Hispanic kingdom.

This artist manages to happily mediate the pictorial culture of his time: on the one hand the avant-garde of that time, the Renaissance with the introduction of perspective and Flemish painting, with great attention to the rendering of details and the use of oil painting (even though he continues in many cases to use tempera); and on the other the international Gothic (more Hispanic in this case) with the use of the gold background and the inclusion of figures in Gothic architectures.

Of the great altarpiece that was kept in the Cathedral of Castelsardo, and which gives the artist its name, there are only a few panels left: Our Lady on the main altar and those of the Trinity, the Archangel Michael and the panel of the Four Apostles, which are located in the Diocese Museum.