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carvings in Pillow manner

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 		<p>Mode of a template offers a quick way to sort by type, such as “B” would group. all those with birds.</p> <p>These are the Codes used in Modes</p> <p>2 foliage or tendrils that are separate, two-dimensional</p> <p>3 foliage or tendrils that are crossing or emerging out of another</p> <p>c major part of the foliage placed in the centre of the capital</p> <p>f major foliage on the flanks, supporting the upper corner</p> <p>r rinceau designs, often emerging from the mouth</p> <p>+ more than one row of elements</p> <p># repeatitive items place in rows and layers</p> <p><> foliage connects above the astragal, rather than rising from it.</p> <p>oo elements framed, mainly in rinceau designs.</p> <p>B birds or animals</p> <p>cone the core form is dominant, decoration laid over it</p> <p>e enchancre, though seldom consistent on all capitals.</p> <p>H heads or people</p> <p>geom geometric forms or lines</p> <p>hang foliage hanging, at times from a head or crocket</p> <p>Sp spiral rinceau designs</p> <p>T^ tips of leaves extended and pointing up, or Tv pointing down</p> <p>tree tree-like forms</p> <p>X straps, either crossing or used instead of foliage.</p>
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Mode of a template offers a quick way to sort by type, such as “B” would group. all those with birds.

These are the Codes used in Modes

2 foliage or tendrils that are separate, two-dimensional

3 foliage or tendrils that are crossing or emerging out of another

c major part of the foliage placed in the centre of the capital

f major foliage on the flanks, supporting the upper corner

r rinceau designs, often emerging from the mouth

+ more than one row of elements

# repeatitive items place in rows and layers

<> foliage connects above the astragal, rather than rising from it.

oo elements framed, mainly in rinceau designs.

B birds or animals

cone the core form is dominant, decoration laid over it

e enchancre, though seldom consistent on all capitals.

H heads or people

geom geometric forms or lines

hang foliage hanging, at times from a head or crocket

Sp spiral rinceau designs

T^ tips of leaves extended and pointing up, or Tv pointing down

tree tree-like forms

X straps, either crossing or used instead of foliage.
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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.
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?

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Studies These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.
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These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.

Carver: Pillow, 0 capitals in 29 jobs. Active: -. Filtered by Certainty ALL.

  Origin Monument Region Dept Priority Phase Description Decade Detail Date Certainty Job
   Pontoise Saint-Maclou Vexin Val-d'Oise 2 2 ambulatory (a) piers 1130 1133 1
   Pernant Saint-Léger Soissonais Aisne 3 1 apse 1130 1133 2
   Bonnesvalyn Saint-Martin Soissonais Aisne 3 12 apse (a) 1110 1118 3
   Viel-Arcy Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Soissonais Aisne 3 2 apse (a) 1100 1108 4
   Morienval Saint-Denis Senlisis Oise 2 12 apse (a) 1100 1102 5
   Pontoise Saint-Maclou Vexin Val-d'Oise 2 1 chapels 1120 1120 6
   Sens Saint-Étienne Yonne Yonne 1 7 choir (a) 1-4 1150 1158 7
   Laon Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem Laonnois Aisne 3 2 church (a) 1070 1072 8
   Dormans Saint-Hippolyte Marne Marne 3 1 crossing 1080 1085 9
   Latilly Saint-Laurent Soissonais Aisne 3 2 crossing 1110 1111 10
   Gaillon-sur-Montcient Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Meulanois Yvelines 3 3 crossing (c) 1110 1113 11
   Acy-en-Multien Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Soissonais Oise 3 4 crossing w1 1130 1135 12
   Morienval Saint-Denis Senlisis Oise 2 13 east (c) 1100 1103 13
   Bruyères-et-Montbérault La Visitation Laonnois Aisne 2 7 east (c+) 1130 1136 14
   Bury Saint-Lucien Therain Oise 2 2 n nave (a) 1100 1105 15
   Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Saint-Nicolas Therain Oise 1 3 narthex (g) 1110 1115 16
   Vraux Saint-Laurent Châlonais Marne 3 4 nave 1140 1140 17
   Vaumoise Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Soissonais Oise 3 3 nave 1130 1139 18
   Crandelain Saint-Martin Laonnois Aisne 3 3 nave (a), W-w 1110 1111 19
   Châteaudun Sainte-Madeleine Perche Eure-et-Loir 2 3 nave (d) 1120 1129 20
   Cauroy-lès-Hermonville Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Nicaise Reimois Marne 3 1 porch, nave 1110 1113 21
   Châteaudun Sainte-Madeleine Perche Eure-et-Loir 2 5 s nave (a) 1130 1138 22
   Mareil-sur-Mauldre Saint-Martin Meulanois Yvelines 3 2 south (a,v) 1130 1130 23
   Latilly Saint-Laurent Soissonais Aisne 3 3 tower 1110 1118 24
   Nouvion-le-Vineux Saint-Martin Laonnois Aisne 3 2 tower I 1110 1110 25
   Bruyères-sur-Oise Saint-Vivien Therain Val-d'Oise 3 3 tower II 1110 1118 26
   Villers-Saint-Paul Saint-Paul Therain Oise 3 4 w portal 2 1130 1130 27
   Louvres Saint-Justin Senlisis Val-d'Oise 3 1 west door 1130 1135 28
   Chartres Saint-André Perche Eure-et-Loir 3 2 west portal 1140 1141 29