ACCEPTED. - Apulian marble-worker of the 11th century. A pulpit in the cathedral of Canosa bears his name and that of the patron: «Per jussionem domini mei Guitberti venerabilis presbyteri - Ego Acceptus peccator archidiaconus feci hoc opus». The pulpit dates to the middle of the 11th century, and is one of the oldest examples of Apulian Romanesque sculpture: it is rectangular in shape with smooth panels and a small semicylindrical projection with the reading desk supported by an eagle; it rests on four round arches supported by polygonal columns. The frames of the panels, the pendentives and the archivolts of the arches and the capitals are carved according to Byzantine-style ornamental motifs with some Muslim echo: the execution of these ornaments is singularly clear and vigorous. To A. are attributed the remains of another pulpit, dated 1041, in the church of S. Michele at Monte S. Angelo.

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BIBL.: E. Bertaux, L'art dans l'Italie méridionale, I, Paris 1904, p. 444; P. Toesca, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, II, Turin 1927, p. 833; F. Schettini, La scultura pugliese dall'XI al XII sec., Bari 1946.

Enzo Carli

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