medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
> > http://rubens.anu.edu.au
> > unfortunately, the quality of the images is very uneven and navigating the
site is somewhat of a pain.
> Agreed, on both counts. The exterior shots of Trani cathedral are not
much of a muchness.
well, you are applying a High Standard of Standardness, there, which might not
be altogether Fair.
>But there are seven very valuable pages of views (mostly detail) of
Barisano's bronze doors.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/italy2004/trani/churches/duomo/bronze_doors_bar
> isano_da_trani_c1180/
> TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/5yyq4
typical of the site: shots of a rather obscure place, with, perhaps more
details than can be found anywhere else on the web; but, when the details are
viewed full size, flaws appear --camera movement, degredation of the digital
image, whatever...
the fellow who started that site --several years ago, probably-- is possessed
of a Great Vision, but doesn't realise that creating Quality Images doesn't
really take all that much more time and energy as creating Crappy Images.
getting from Down Under to Europe, after all, is *much* harder and costly than
going around various places in Europe with a camera.
> The photographs of Santa Sofia at Benevento
> esp. the cloister capitals (14 pages):
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/italy2004/benevento/churches/santa_sophia/clois
ter/
unusual caps, which i can't recall seeing before.
Moissac triangles, somewhat overdone.
> The absence of identifying text can be problematic, though.
an whole seperate skillset, putting a (reasonably accurate) label on the
iconography, as opposed to just taking the pic.
> This is clearly a work in progress. If you're looking for a particular
site, the fullest indexing appears to be under "Countries" and then its
sub-headings.
which is not to say that the site couldn't have been made more navigable.
a case in point is the Task of finding two cloister columns from the abbey of
Coulombs (near Dreux), now in the Louvre.
now, i *know* that those are in the Rubens db --i've seen them.
a search on "Coulombs" using the search engine on the homepage of the site
yields nothing.
trying to find them using the search engine on "Louvre" gives me some nice
dead ends to waste time on.
finally, going to "Museums in....France" gives me a page
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bycountry/subjectindex/museum.france.html
with lots of nice possibilities.
under "Paris...museums...Louvre...Sculpture...France...12th c." we have four
pages of thumbnails to leaf through.
without sucess --no Coulombs columns there.
ahh.... "Paris...museums...Louvre...Sculpture...France...Medieval" has 100
thumnails...
and, sho nuf, there they are, right on the first page
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/stereo.source7Gb/france/paris/museums/louvre/sculpture/france/mediaeval/17L.JPG
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/stereo.source7Gb/france/paris/museums/louvre/sculpture/france/mediaeval/20L.JPG
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/stereo.source7Gb/france/paris/museums/louvre/sculpture/france/mediaeval/20L.JPG
with *huge* .jpgs, virtually illegible.
but, folks, those are the *only* pics of Coulumbs i've been able to find on
the net, anywhere, so, take 'em or leaf 'em.
c
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