carveridcertsortconfsortcsortcustom_spagesrch_attr_visitedsrch_importance_5 Creation of Gothic

explore the carvers - list
carvings in Rocket manner

Carving styles (0 total)

carver?
mode?
 		<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>
X

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.
confidence?

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?

FOUR ARTICLES FOUR ARTICLES...Read more
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.
X

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

  Origin Monument Region Dept Priority Phase Description Decade Detail Date Certainty Job
   Courcelles-sur-Viosne Saint-Lucien Vexin Val-d'Oise 2 1 tower base 1100 1107 1
   Fitz-James Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Therain Oise 3 1 crossing 1110 1111 2
   Foulangues Saint-Denis Therain Oise 3 5 w crossing 1110 1114 !? 3
   Cauffry Saint-Aubin Therain Oise 3 1 east 1120 1125 4
   Creil Saint-Evremont Therain Oise 3 1 east 1120 1124 5
   Saint-Loup-de-Naud Saint-Loup-de-Sens Provinois Seine-et-Marne 3 4 nave (a) 1120 1123 6
   Breteuil-sur-Noye Saints-Cyr-et-Juliette Beauvaisis Oise 3 1 east 1130 1130 7
   Paris Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre Parisis Paris 2 4 nave south (a) 1130 1132 8
   Vaumoise Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Soissonais Oise 3 2 crossing 1130 1138 9
   Saconin-et-Breuil Saints-Gervais-et-Protais Soissonais Aisne 3 2 east 1130 1133 10
   Aulnay-sous-Bois Saint-Sulpice Parisis Seine-St-Denis 3 1 east 1130 1133 11
   Châteaudun Sainte-Madeleine Perche Eure-et-Loir 2 5 s nave (a) 1130 1138 !! 12
   Langres Saint-Mammès Outliers Haute-Marne 1 3 nave (c) 1130 1137 !! 13
   Étampes Saint-Martin Parisis Essonne 2 1 choir (a) 1130 1136 ! 14
   Beauvais Saint-Étienne Beauvaisis Oise 1 9 nave 3-5 (a) 1130 1136 15
   Corbeil Notre-Dame Parisis Essonne 3 3 arcade 1130 1134 !! 16
   Saint-Denis-en-France Saint-Denis Parisis Seine-St-Denis 1 15 west exterior 1130 1135 17
   Saint-Denis-en-France Saint-Denis Parisis Seine-St-Denis 1 21 choir (u) 1140 1140 ! 18
   Saint-Denis-en-France Saint-Denis Parisis Seine-St-Denis 1 22 choir walls (a) 1140 1141 19
   Châteaudun Sainte-Madeleine Perche Eure-et-Loir 2 6 n nave (a) 1140 1141 ! 20
   Évreux Notre-Dame Perche Eure 2 3 nave 6 1140 1140 ! 21
   Saint-Christophe-en-Halatte Saint-Christophe Senlisis Oise 3 1 east (a) 1150 1159 22
   Creil Saint-Evremont Therain Oise 3 2 nave 1150 1155 23
   Bazoches-sur-Vesles Saint-Pierre Soissonais Aisne 3 1 east 1150 1151 24
   Saint-Germer-de-Fly Saint-Germer Beauvaisis Oise 1 4 chapels (av) 1150 1151 25
   Oulchy-le-Chateau Notre-Dame Soissonais Aisne 2 9 choir (cw) 1150 1154 26
   Senlis Notre-Dame Senlisis Oise 1 9 choir (g) 1160 1160 27
   Ambleny Saint-Martin Soissonais Aisne 3 4 piers 1160 1167 28
   Saint-Christophe-en-Halatte Saint-Christophe Senlisis Oise 3 2 east (c) 1160 1161 29