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(b ?Lyon; fl 1418; d Angers, 1459). French sculptor and architect, son of Pierre Morel. He was a widely travelled and prolific artist. He was named Master of the Works of Lyon Cathedral in 1418 and was contracted to execute an elaborate tomb for Cardinal Amédée de Saluces there in 1420 (destr. 1562). After leaving Lyon in 1424 or 1425, Morel worked in the Rhône valley and elsewhere in southern and central France. He is cited as an inhabitant of Toulouse in a commission for a silver altarpiece for Avignon Cathedral (1429; apparently never completed), as active in Béziers (1433; work for St Aphrodise), and as collaborator of Simon de Beaujeu in Tarascon (c. 1433). This was followed by periods of residence in Avignon (1441–5), Montpellier (1445–8), and Rodez, where in 1448 he received a contract for the construction and sculptural decoration of the south portal of the cathedral (work left incomplete in ...