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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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An abstracted central tree-form that at times acquires additional plates. The trunks arise out of the astragal, the flanking plates at the corners do not join. This work is minimalist, undecorated and reduced to essentials. He sometimes utilises elements from those around him, but never wavers from [..]
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Carver: Yves, 19 capitals in 17 jobs. Active: -1156 Filtered by Certainty !!
- Yves - !! - 1120 s [ 1125
- Sacra di San Michele - Phase 1
- San Michele - undercroft
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Yves - !! - 1120 s [ 1129
- Châteaudun - Phase 3
- Sainte-Madeleine - nave (d)
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Yves - !! - 1120 s [ 1129
- Châteaudun - Phase 3
- Sainte-Madeleine - nave (d)
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Yves - !! - 1140 s [ 1143
- Etampes - Phase 29
- Notre-Dame-du-Fort - s chapels (c)
- Core template, details suggest another carver