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carvings in Sprout manner
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GATHERING SIMILAR CARVINGS among over 50,000 in this study is the first step in separating the work of individuals.
It has been my lifelong intention to identify some of the men who created Gothic. This is a beginning, a work in progress.
TYPICAL QUESTIONS might be: What else was going on in the towns where he worked? How long would it have taken to get to distant churches? As the carvers travelled, who did they meet at different sites, and how might this have influenced their carving? Where may men have met and spent time together and shared ideas? How long was a working life, and were their first works carved in adolescence? Are the dates clustered within a reasonable timeframe for an active life? Were carvers employed by one builder or were they independent and peripatetic? On a large job would all the carvers have turned up at the same time, or singly? Did they do other skilled work such as torus moulds or decorative framing, and can we identify them? FOUR ARTICLES
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Sharply outlined triangular leaves, back-cut to create a strong shadow, overlapping by a big margin and largest on the corners. No crockets, no vines. There are two modes (two carvers?). Leaves are arranged in rows, usually two or three rows of them, occasionally up to four, in which the base of t[..]
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Carver: Sprout, 21 capitals in 20 jobs. Active: 1129-1161 Filtered by Certainty !!
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1130
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 5
- Saint-Denis - capitals to centre door
- Core template
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1131
- Paris - Phase 14
- Saint-Martin-des-Champs - choir (a) II
- Replaced or restored, with similar template
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1131
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 6
- Saint-Denis - w portal 4
- Core template, details suggest another carver
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1132
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 8
- Saint-Denis - narthex aisle (a)
- Core template
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1132
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 8
- Saint-Denis - narthex aisle (a)
- Core template
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1132
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 8
- Saint-Denis - narthex aisle (a)
- Possibly from core template, very uncertain
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1132
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 8
- Saint-Denis - narthex aisle (a)
- Core template
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1137
- Paris - Phase 23
- Saint-Martin-des-Champs - choir (cw)
- Replaced or restored, with similar template
- Sprout - !! - 1130 s [ 1139
- Ferté-Alais, La - Phase 2
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - east (c)
- Core template, details suggest another carver
- Sprout - !! - 1140 s [ 1144
- Chartres - Phase 22
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - lancet caps interior
- Variation of master's core template, possibly with an associate
- Sprout - !! - 1160 s [ 1161
- Saint-Christophe-en-Halatte - Phase 2
- Saint-Christophe - east (c)
- Core template
- Sprout - !! - 1160 s [ 1161
- Saint-Christophe-en-Halatte - Phase 2
- Saint-Christophe - east (c)
- Core template
- Sprout - !! - 1160 s [ 1161
- Saint-Christophe-en-Halatte - Phase 2
- Saint-Christophe - east (c)
- Core template