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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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Spirals are a major structure. Little leaves of similar designs on long stems stick out from the spirals. The side branches emerge from sockets that do not cut across the main branch, a personal device. Animals are always contained within branches, enfolded in the vines, but never entangled. His mo[..]
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Carver: Felix, 27 capitals in 44 jobs. Active: 1104-1156 Filtered by Certainty !?
- Felix - !? - 1100 s [ 1104
- Urcel - Phase 2
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - porch
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Felix - !? - 1100 s [ 1104
- Urcel - Phase 2
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - porch
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Felix - !? - 1100 s [ 1104
- Urcel - Phase 2
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - porch
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Felix - !? - 1100 s [ 1104
- Urcel - Phase 2
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - porch
- While an apprentice, design was being evolved
- Felix - !? - 1120 s [ 1123
- Meulan - Phase 1
- Saint-Nicolas - remnants
- Possibly from core template, very uncertain
- Felix - !? - 1120 s [ 1123
- Meulan - Phase 1
- Saint-Nicolas - remnants
- Possibly from core template, very uncertain
- Felix - !? - 1120 s [ 1127
- Moissac - Phase 4
- Saint-Pierre - chapter house
- Design is like work in the Basin, and uncommon locally
- Felix - !? - 1120 s [ 1127
- Santillana del Mar - Phase 1
- Santa Juliana - cloister
- Core template used beyond Paris Basin. Did he travel?
- Felix - !? - 1120 s [ 1129
- Bruyères-et-Montbérault - Phase 3
- La Visitation - choir (a)
- Variation of master's core template, possibly with an associate
- Felix - !? - 1120 s [ 1129
- Bruyères-et-Montbérault - Phase 3
- La Visitation - choir (a)
- Variation of master's core template, possibly with an associate
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1130
- Paris - Phase 13
- Saint-Martin-des-Champs - choir (a) I
- Unique feature, being a head or person
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1130
- Paris - Phase 13
- Saint-Martin-des-Champs - choir (a) I
- Replaced or restored, with similar template
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1131
- Paris - Phase 14
- Saint-Martin-des-Champs - choir (a) II
- Replaced or restored, with similar template
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1131
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 4
- Saint-Denis - colonnette (Cluny)
- Core template
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1132
- Saint-Denis-en-France - Phase 8
- Saint-Denis - narthex aisle (a)
- Core template, details suggest another carver
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1136
- Poissy - Phase 3
- Notre-Dame - south 1
- Replaced or restored, with similar template
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1137
- Patrixbourne - Phase 1
- Saint Mary - nave
- Design is like work in the Basin, and uncommon locally
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1137
- Patrixbourne - Phase 1
- Saint Mary - nave
- Design is like work in the Basin, and uncommon locally
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1137
- Patrixbourne - Phase 1
- Saint Mary - nave
- Design is like work in the Basin, and uncommon locally
- Felix - !? - 1130 s [ 1137
- Patrixbourne - Phase 1
- Saint Mary - nave
- Unique feature, being an animal or bird
- Felix - !? - 1150 s [ 1153
- May-en-Multien - Phase 4
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - nave 1 (c)
- Variation of master's core template, possibly with an associate
- Felix - !? - 1150 s [ 1153
- May-en-Multien - Phase 4
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - nave 1 (c)
- Variation of master's core template, possibly with an associate
- Felix - !? - 1150 s [ 1153
- May-en-Multien - Phase 4
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - nave 1 (c)
- Variation of master's core template, possibly with an associate