Cluny and the Origins of Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cluny and the Origins of Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture write by C. Edson Armi. This book was released on 2019. Cluny and the Origins of Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The role of individual sculptors in creating the ambulatory capitals in the largest basilica in Christendom at Cluny remains a mystery. The unresolved issue of individual creativity leaves open three important questions about this powerful abbey which controlled hundreds of monasteries throughout Europe in the eleventh century: What was the specific artistic context - the origin, training and career path of the major sculptors who worked at the mother church at the start of construction? What was the relationship, in time and influence, between the focal ambulatory capitals and similar sculptures at numerous local sites? And what role did artists play in determining the form and meaning of Cluny sculptures and related monuments? This book traces the career of a sculptor who worked on the earliest capitals in the abbey church at Cluny. It documents his artistic preferences at previous Burgundian projects, gathering a variety of evidence intended to be on the one hand precise, complex and subtle, and on the other convincingly repetitious. He treated gesture, pose, anatomy, drapery, foliage, architecture, background and space not only consistently but also in a complementary fashion. Plainly put, he blurred the traditional distinction between sculpture and architecture, displaying a rich and unique combination of artistic preferences even as he worked with different kinds of patrons on various subjects at numerous and diverse monuments. These findings are supported with high-resolution photographs taken at telling angles from high ladders and scaffolding. This version of the creative process at the mother church, in which the Cluniac brothers picked a local talent to carry out one of the most important sculptural commissions in Europe, differs markedly from the standard one based largely on presumed but undocumented artistic priorities of the monks. Prevailing theory assumes the monks had an international perspective when it came to art as they tried to establish at Cluny a new Rome as the centerpiece of their monastic empire. Rather than tap an experienced sculptor who worked in the indigenous masonry tradition, they would have looked toward foreign lands to find suitable artists who based their designs on high forms of art such as ivory, painting, and metalwork. C. Edson Armi Is a research professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written books on Cluniac architecture and sculpture, design and construction in Romanesque architecture, Gothic sculpture, and American car design. He received the Society of Architectural Historians Founders' Award, the C.I.N.O.A. International Art History Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Romanesque Sculpture
Romanesque Sculpture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romanesque Sculpture write by Millard Fillmore Hearn. This book was released on 1985. Romanesque Sculpture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads
Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads write by Arthur Kingsley Porter. This book was released on 1923. Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: Text
Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: Text - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: Text write by C. Edson Armi. This book was released on 1983. Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: Text available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For nearly a century, archaeologists and art historians studying the great third abbey at Cluny (Cluny III) have "agreed on a set of abstract principles, including its spontaneous generation or revolutionary character, and posited an overseeing genius who selected from non-local sources." In a sweeping revision of that position, this book argues that Cluny Ill is "the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design," and further maintains that the artisans responsible for the masonry of Cluny Ill also created its sculpture. Professor Armi reaches these conclusions through a painstaking analysis of archaeological evidence, such as masons' marks, and a careful "hand analysis" of the site's sculpture, allowing observation of both individual and general design changes, turning points, and stylistic trends. As a result of his investigation of the major Burgundian structures of the period Cluny, Vézelay, Paray-le-Monial, Anzy-le-Duc, Perrecy-les-Forges, etc., the author has established a new chronology for the architecture of the region. He also has identified the careers of the major artists who carved the portal and capital sculpture. His research has even disproved the traditional assumption that sculpture was carved in situ, for his evidence reveals that finished pieces were fitted into the masonry at Cluny III and elsewhere. By focusing on the work of individual masons and on progressive alterations in architectural detail, the author has broken with the method of his predecessors, but there is ample support for both his methods and his conclusions in the book's 400 illustrations. In his use of macrophotography alone, Armi has added a valuable new methodological tool for the comprehension of both architecture and sculpture, but his most important contribution to the field lies in showing that, by working together, two local groups of masons merged their separate traditions to create a magnificent synthesis: the Cluniac High Romanesque style.
A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period to the Present Day
A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period to the Present Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period to the Present Day write by Chandler Rathfon Post. This book was released on 1921. A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period to the Present Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
