Mathieu of Arras

Mathieu of Arras (1290? Arras - 1352, Prague) is an architect, sculptor and French owner building. He is the first architect of the Cathédrale Saint-Guy of Prague.

Biography

Of his life before his arrival with Prague, one does not know large thing. It was active at the court of the pope with Avignon. It is there that it meets the future emperor Charles IV of the Holy roman Empire which invites it to come to build a new cathedral for the bishop of Prague which has just been high in Archidiocèse. The Saint-Guy Cathedral begins in 1341 in the French southernmost Gothic style. The basic plan is close to that of the Cathédrale Saint-Just-and-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne and to that of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Rodez.

The first stone is posed only in 1344 and during the eight following years, until its death, it has time to complete eight arcades of the chorus, the déambulatoire and the radiant side chapels.

It is with Hradčany, that it establishes its workshops, not far from its major building site.

After its death in 1352, it is the young person Peter Parler who, in 1356, takes again the workshop and the building site of Mathieu of Arras by modifying it sometimes radically.

Works

Cathédrale Saint-Guy of Prague
Pont plane Charles
of the News-City of Prague
Église of Notre-Dame de Týn
Karlštejn to him is also allotted

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