Author: Anne McGee Morganstern
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271048654
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"Re-examines the sculpture on the transept porches of Chartres Cathedral and revises their chronology, based on information from the previously unstudied tomb of the count of Joigny. Documents the production of the monument within the context of French High Gothic sculpture"--Provided by publisher.
High Gothic Sculpture at Chartres Cathedral, the Tomb of the Count of Joigny, and the Master of the Warrior Saints
Author: Anne McGee Morganstern
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271048654
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"Re-examines the sculpture on the transept porches of Chartres Cathedral and revises their chronology, based on information from the previously unstudied tomb of the count of Joigny. Documents the production of the monument within the context of French High Gothic sculpture"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271048654
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"Re-examines the sculpture on the transept porches of Chartres Cathedral and revises their chronology, based on information from the previously unstudied tomb of the count of Joigny. Documents the production of the monument within the context of French High Gothic sculpture"--Provided by publisher.
Chartres Cathedral
Author: Robert Branner
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393314380
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
"An introduction to Chartres Cathedral with an analytical and historical essay, documents and source materials, critical essays, and 125 illustrations"--
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393314380
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
"An introduction to Chartres Cathedral with an analytical and historical essay, documents and source materials, critical essays, and 125 illustrations"--
Chartres Cathedral
Author: Malcolm B. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The author is the world's foremost authority on Chartres, and is in residence there most of the year. He shows us the history of the cathedral and teaches us how to "read" the world-famous stained glass and sculpture, explaining the references to Scripture and the teachings of the Church. Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture. Medieval art was intended not just to embellish the church but to instruct the people, for there was no printing. Scholars could therefore teach their students, the clergy preach sermons and parents read the lives of the saints to their children using the 'texts' in stained glass and sculpture. The sister churches of Chartres have been sadly vandalized to varying degrees by Reform, revolution, war or natural disaster. Here in Chartres the 'text' is virtually complete. A concise glossary of symbolic images has been included as well as a complete plan of all the windows in the cathedral, and an index.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The author is the world's foremost authority on Chartres, and is in residence there most of the year. He shows us the history of the cathedral and teaches us how to "read" the world-famous stained glass and sculpture, explaining the references to Scripture and the teachings of the Church. Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture. Medieval art was intended not just to embellish the church but to instruct the people, for there was no printing. Scholars could therefore teach their students, the clergy preach sermons and parents read the lives of the saints to their children using the 'texts' in stained glass and sculpture. The sister churches of Chartres have been sadly vandalized to varying degrees by Reform, revolution, war or natural disaster. Here in Chartres the 'text' is virtually complete. A concise glossary of symbolic images has been included as well as a complete plan of all the windows in the cathedral, and an index.
The Sculptural Programs of Chartres Cathedral: Christ, Mary, Ecclesia
Author: Adolf Katzenellenbogen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Sculpture at Chartres
Author: Peter Kidson
Publisher: Academy Editions
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher: Academy Editions
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The "headmaster" of Chartres and the Origins of "Gothic" Sculpture
Author: C. Edson Armi
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Professor Armi's study represents a dramatic reconsideration of the origins of Gothic sculpture by employing new methodology and refuting previously accepted theories. Despite the aesthetic and historical significance of the Royal Portal, no documentation of its design and construction exists. Nevertheless, over the last century a set of truths about the facade have become accepted. Employing a new methodology that overcomes the lack of documents with a revised form of connoisseurship, Edson Armi proposes a radically different biography of the Headmaster that has far-reaching implications for the study of Gothic sculpture. With a new perspective on the most important mid-twelfth-century portal, the book concludes that the style and cultural context of Île-de-France sculpture is less defined and more diverse than previously imagined. More importantly, the book argues that the forms of art, as well as the design and working procedures in the Paris basin, can no longer be seen as unique or separate from the practices of provincial French art in the period before 1140.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Professor Armi's study represents a dramatic reconsideration of the origins of Gothic sculpture by employing new methodology and refuting previously accepted theories. Despite the aesthetic and historical significance of the Royal Portal, no documentation of its design and construction exists. Nevertheless, over the last century a set of truths about the facade have become accepted. Employing a new methodology that overcomes the lack of documents with a revised form of connoisseurship, Edson Armi proposes a radically different biography of the Headmaster that has far-reaching implications for the study of Gothic sculpture. With a new perspective on the most important mid-twelfth-century portal, the book concludes that the style and cultural context of Île-de-France sculpture is less defined and more diverse than previously imagined. More importantly, the book argues that the forms of art, as well as the design and working procedures in the Paris basin, can no longer be seen as unique or separate from the practices of provincial French art in the period before 1140.
The South Porch of Chartres Cathedral
Author: Sara Lutan-Hassner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789490387051
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789490387051
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France
Author: JanetE. Snyder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351569074
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and extending around Paris from Provins in the east, south to Bourges and Dijon, and west to Chartres and Angers, larger than life-size statues of human figures were arranged along portal jambs, many carved as if wearing the dress of the highest ranks of French society. This study takes a close look at twelfth-century human figure sculpture, describing represented clothing, defining the language of textiles and dress that would have been legible in the twelfth-century, and investigating rationale and significance. The concepts conveyed through these extraordinary visual documents and the possible motivations of the patrons of portal programs with column-figures are examined through contemporaneous historical, textual, and visual evidence in various media. Appendices include analysis of sculpture production, and the transportation and fabrication in limestone from Paris. Janet Snyder's new study considers how patrons used sculpture to express and shape perceived reality, employing images of textiles and clothing that had political, economic, and social significances.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351569074
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and extending around Paris from Provins in the east, south to Bourges and Dijon, and west to Chartres and Angers, larger than life-size statues of human figures were arranged along portal jambs, many carved as if wearing the dress of the highest ranks of French society. This study takes a close look at twelfth-century human figure sculpture, describing represented clothing, defining the language of textiles and dress that would have been legible in the twelfth-century, and investigating rationale and significance. The concepts conveyed through these extraordinary visual documents and the possible motivations of the patrons of portal programs with column-figures are examined through contemporaneous historical, textual, and visual evidence in various media. Appendices include analysis of sculpture production, and the transportation and fabrication in limestone from Paris. Janet Snyder's new study considers how patrons used sculpture to express and shape perceived reality, employing images of textiles and clothing that had political, economic, and social significances.
The West Portals of Saint-Denis and Chartres
Author: Whitney S. Stoddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, French
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, French
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Cathedral Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description