# Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Catalan]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 51 x 86 cm ## Commentary Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo \(detail\) c. 1300 Tempera on wood, 51 x 86 cm Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona The linear style is remarkable for its subtlety. It is characterized, particularly in northern Spain, by undulating rhythms and a refined color scale. The backgrounds, in which architecture, furniture, and occasionally utensils are schematically represented, are in monochrome, but the figures that occupy the foreground have an expressive humanity, very different from the hieratic formalism of the past. A typical and very ancient example of the calligraphic style is the decoration of the tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carrillo \(Barcelona Museum\). This comes from Mahamud \(Burgos\) and marks the beginning of the Gothic style in Castile. ## Related artworks - [Altar frontal]() - [Christ and the Twelve Apostles \(detail\)]() - [Christ and the Twelve Apostles]() - [Christ in Majesty and Apostles]() - [Coronation of Mary]() - [Crucifix]() - [Enthroned Madonna and Child]() - [Nativity]() - [Scenes from the Life of Jesus]() - [St Anne with the Virgin and the Child]() - [Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo \(detail\)]() - [Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()