Raymond of Bianya — Wikipedia

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Lying of an unidentified bishop in the Elne cloister, bearing an inscription identifying the sculptor’s workshop

Primary works

Portal of Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Perpignan)

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Raymond of Bianya (in Catalan, Ramon de Bianya ) is the name admitted by most historians to designate an active workshop of sculptors in Roussillon (department of Pyrénées-Orientales) during the first decades of XIII ^{It is} century. The main work attributed to it is the portal of Saint-Jean-le-Vieux de Perpignan.

The denomination Raymond of Bianya Based on two recumbent recumbers in the Elne cloister, where two inscriptions mention «R. de Bia» . The first recumbent, unidentified bishop, bed “R. This works d BIA» , which could be transcribed into “R [aimondus] F [Each] These works d [e] BIA” in Latin, either “R. de Bia did these works” in French ^{[ first ]} . The other statue, identified as the recumbent of F. du Soler, bed «Bianya’s Raymond Me Fit et Je Serai State» ^{[ 2 ]} .
Another interpretations of the name is Raymond (or Ramon) of Via, a village of Cerdagne included in the commune of Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via.

The works attributed to the workshop are all carved in marble, and the treatment of figures is rather conventional: body entirely covered by fabrics, rigidity of the faces ^{[ 3 ]} . The originality of Raymond de Bianya lies in the treatment of folds of fabrics: they are always organized in oblique networks converging towards the center of the figures, breaking their rigidity and their verticality ^{[ 4 ]} .

Several works, mainly funeral, are allocated to Raymond de Bianya.

• The portal of Saint-Jean-le-Vieux de Perpignan, in marble and central pendant key representing Christ ^{[ 5 ]} .
• The two recumbers of the Elne cloister, bearing the inscriptions to identify the workshop ^{[ 4 ]} .
• Another bas-relief of the Elne cloister, sealed in the wall of the southern gallery, representing the resurrection of Christ, is attributable, according to Marcel Durliat, to the sculptor ^{[ 4 ]} .
• A bas-relief embedded above the door of the Saint-Jacques church of Canet-en-Roussillon, representing the soul of a deceased amount in heaven, carried by two angels in a shroud ^{[ 6 ]} and which would come either from the old Saint-Jacques church, destroyed on the orders of the king of Aragon ^{[ 7 ]} , either from the Saint-Martin church of the castle, today ruined ^{[ 8 ]} .
• A funeral plate embedded in the western facade of the abbey of the abbey of Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines ^{[ 4 ]} .
• The funerary monument of Guillaume Gaucelme, embedded above the Holy Tombe, in the courtyard preceding the eastern facade of the abbey of the old Abbey Sainte-Marie d’Arles-sur-Tech ^{[ 9 ] , [ 4 ]} .

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  Guillaume Gaucelme funerary monument (Arles-sur-Tech)

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  Bas-relief above the front door of the Saint-Jacques church (Canet-en-Roussillon)

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  Loking F. de Soler (Elne)

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  Portal of Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Perpignan)

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  Christ of the Portal of Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Perpignan)

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• Marcel Hard , Roussillon Roman , Saint-Léger-Vauban, zodiac, coll. “The Night of Time” ( n ^O 7), 1986 , 321 p. (ISBN  2-7369-0027-8 ) , p. 208-209 & 255-256
• Geraldine Mallet , Romanesque churches forgotten in Roussillon , Montpellier, Languedoc presses, 2003 , 334 p. (ISBN  2-85998-244-2 ) , p. 68-69 & 293
• Robert Leap , Canet-en-Roussillon: looks on 3000 years of history , The friends of the old Canet, 1991 , p. 56
• (shift) ‘ Ramon de Bianya » , Great Catalan Encyclopedia , on Enciclopedia.cat , Barcelone, Editions 62 .

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