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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: Tortue, 0 capitals in 54 jobs. Active: -. Filtered by Certainty ALL.

  Origin Monument Region Dept Priority Phase Description Decade Detail Date Certainty Job
   Beauvais Saint-Étienne Beauvaisis Oise 1 9 nave 3-5 (a) 1130 1136 1
   Frocourt Saint-Fuscien Beauvaisis Oise 3 2 tower II 1160 1160 2
   Athis Saint-Remi Châlonais Marne 3 3 nave (a) 1140 1145 3
   Dampierre-sur-Moivre Saint-Laurent Châlonais Marne 3 3 apse 1170 1178 4
   Ambonnay Saint-Réol Châlonais Marne 3 2 nave (a) N 1150 1158 5
   Jâlons Saint-Ephrem Châlonais Marne 3 2 apse, nave (a) 1150 1156 6
   Châlons-en-Champagne Notre-Dame-en-Vaux Châlonais Marne 1 16 nave (g) 1170 1173 7
   Ambonnay Saint-Réol Châlonais Marne 3 4 apse (c) 1160 1164 8
   Jâlons Saint-Ephrem Châlonais Marne 3 3 porch 1160 1162 9
   Châlons-en-Champagne Notre-Dame-en-Vaux Châlonais Marne 1 17 nave (t,c) 1170 1174 10
   Vraux Saint-Laurent Châlonais Marne 3 5 tower 1150 1156 11
   Châlons-en-Champagne Notre-Dame-en-Vaux Châlonais Marne 1 20 choir (g+) 1170 1177 12
   Les Istres-et-Bury Sainte-Helene Châlonais Marne 3 2 tower II 1130 1136 13
   Laon Notre-Dame Laonnois Aisne 1 3 choir piers (a) 1150 1157 14
   Presles-et-Thierny Saint-Georges-et-Saint-Quirin Laonnois Aisne 3 9 porch 1160 1165 15
   Laon Bishops Chapel Laonnois Aisne 3 2 upper level 1160 1160 16
   Laon Notre-Dame Laonnois Aisne 1 34 nave (t,c) 1180 1182 17
   Saint-Agnan Saint-Agnan Marne Aisne 3 1 east, crossing e 1150 1158 18
   Verneuil-sur-Seine Saint-Martin Meulanois Yvelines 3 6 nave (c) 1160 1166 19
   Mantes-la-Jolie Notre-Dame Meulanois Yvelines 1 2 W-c (b) 1150 1156 20
   Vernouillet Saint-Étienne Meulanois Yvelines 3 4 east 1150 1159 21
   Mantes-la-Jolie Notre-Dame Meulanois Yvelines 1 7 church (a) 1170 1177 22
   Autouillet Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Meulanois Yvelines 3 1 east, tower 1160 1165 ! 23
   Juziers Saint-Michel Meulanois Yvelines 2 1 east (d) 1150 1150 24
   Verneuil-sur-Seine Saint-Martin Meulanois Yvelines 3 5 nave (a) 1160 1165 25
   Thourotte La Nativite Noyonnais Oise 3 1 church 1150 1158 26
   Canterbury Cathedral Outliers Kent 1 1 wall dado 1-6 1170 1174 27
   Paris Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre Parisis Paris 2 6 nave (t,c) 1160 1161 28
   Paris Notre-Dame Parisis Paris 1 4 choir walls II 1160 1164 29
   Étiolles Saint-Martin Parisis Essonne 3 1 crossing 1160 1168 30
   Paris Saint-Germain-des-Près Parisis Paris 1 11 ambulatory (a) 1140 1142 31
   Provins Saint-Quirace Provinois Seine-et-Marne 1 7 choir (cw) 1160 1166 32
   Provins Chapelle Comtal Provinois Seine-et-Marne 3 1 chapel 1170 1176 ! 33
   Provins Saint-Quirace Provinois Seine-et-Marne 1 3 e choir (a) 1150 1154 34
   Provins Saint-Quirace Provinois Seine-et-Marne 1 6 choir (c) 1160 1164 35
   Gilocourt Saint-Martin Senlisis Oise 3 1 nave piers 1150 1153 36
   Noël-Saint-Martin Saint-Martin Senlisis Oise 3 4 east 1130 1139 ! 37
   Fosses Saint-Étienne Senlisis Val-d'Oise 3 2 east shafts 1150 1155 38
   Bellefontaine Saint-Étienne Senlisis Val-d'Oise 3 1 apse, north 1120 1125 39
   Senlis Notre-Dame Senlisis Oise 1 9 choir (g) 1160 1160 40
   Arcis-le-Ponsart Notre-Dame Soissonais Marne 3 4 nave (c) 1160 1167 41
   Courmelles Saint-Georges Soissonais Aisne 3 2 east walls 1150 1157 42
   Berzy-le-Sec Saint-Quentin Soissonais Aisne 3 3 Nave arcade and lower west 1160 1167 43
   Acy-en-Multien Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Soissonais Oise 3 3 nave (a) 1130 1133 44
   Bonneuil-en-Valois Saint-Martin Soissonais Oise 3 6 north 1150 1150 45
   Vichel-Nanteuil Saints-Crépin-et-Crépinien Soissonais Aisne 3 2 tower II 1150 1155 46
   Boullarre Saint-Étienne Soissonais Oise 3 3 east (c) 1150 1155 47
   Vaumoise Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Soissonais Oise 3 2 crossing 1130 1138 48
   Laigneville Saint-Remi Therain Oise 3 5 east 1160 1167 49
   Catenoy Saint-Michel-et-Vaast Therain Oise 3 5 crossing (v) 1130 1138 50
   Cambronne-lès-Clermont Saint-Étienne Therain Oise 2 8 n nave (a) 1150 1154 51
   Saint-Vaast-lès-Mello Saint-Lambert Therain Oise 3 6 nave (c)3 1130 1131 52
   Angy Saint-Nicolas Therain Oise 3 3 east 1150 1157 53
   Sens Saint-Étienne Yonne Yonne 1 14 flyers 1-7 1160 1165 54