medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Chris Daniell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thanks very much for the contextual background. Fascinating.
well, it was meant to be more of a backgroundual context, but whatever
satisfies.
the original post was forwarded to the medart list, which gave me the
opportunity to ask that list if anyone there knew anything about this font.
a pretty sleepy list, that one, but if i get any substantive response there
i'll pass it on here.
the more i look at it, the more i think that this piece *needs* to be
published (for stylistic reasons --early sculpture in that region is not thick
on the ground).
assuming that it can still be found --the photo seems to be from the 1920s,
and the photographer also took this other interesting font :
http://www.culture.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0035/sap01_mh043891_p.jpg
contextual background : from the church of La Tour (Alpes-Maritimes) and would
appear to be 11th c., except for the fact that this church also has an
interesting portal :
http://www.culture.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0035/sap01_mh043888_p.jpg
which seems to be in roughly the same "style" and might be from the later 12th
c. (or even later --i'm dating by the *latest* feature present, here the
nearly pointed arch and articulated consoles on the top of the jambs).
the "archising" (rather than archaic) features are also present in the nave of
the church, apparently :
http://www.culture.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0035/sap01_mh043890_p.jpg
from what i can see, this photographer ("Mas" whom i've never heard of), kind
of specialised in shooting curious subjects :
http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_4=AUTP&VALUE_4=Mas&DOM=All&REL_SPECIFIC=1
another useful feature of this remarkable "memoire" site.
c
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