Els retaules del taller dels Sunyer a l'església de Sant Martí de Joc
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The aim of this paper is to bring new testimonies to the study of the Catalan sculpture of the
first half of the eighteenth-century, concretely, the ones of the Conflent region. In general, the
altarpieces production in Catalunya del Nord has been rejected, it can be for the Catalan historiography
or for the French one, without valuing the fact that all the tasks and documentaries
are kept there (xvii-xviii centurys). Concretely, among Catalan artists linked to the area, Josep
and Pau Sunyer i Raurell, from Manresa, work actively in these places. Joc church has kept a
respectable group of altarpieces, that due to the historiographic revision and a new documentation
we can say that they belong to these sculptors.
This paper tries to be the beginning of a more ambitious research about the tasks of Josep
Sunyer i Raurell (circa 1673-1751) in both sides of Pyrenees, that shows the high level of his active
workshop in Catalonia, contemporary to the ones of Costa, Moretó, Pujol, among others