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GATHERING SIMILAR CARVINGS among 30,000 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.
Templates were the means by which a masters communicated with his masons, and I presume that carvers were no different. The template is therefore one key element to making attributions among carvers. Among master masons I would refer you to the 250 geometric studies in The Contractors of Chartres. 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
and including the major design modes for laying out the geometry of most simple and foliate capitals. |
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Used a standard template, modified where needed. It is the similarities in the shape of the mid-flanking fronds and detailing of the fan-like leaves that connects. He emphasized the gap between. Leaves are joined at the bottom, and in some the veins were curved to form sweeping connections across t[..]
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Carver: Victoire, 2 capitals in 2 jobs. Active: 1133-1144. Filtered by Certainty ?. | Switch |