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Am 16. Aug.2007 um 19:16 Uhr schrieb Christopher Crockett:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> On Tuesday, August 14, 2007, at 12:52 pm, christopher crockett wrote:
>
>>> the jarring garishness puts me in mind of the colors which were
>>> recently
> (more
> or less) discovered under the centuries of black grime which
> covered the
> sculptures of the west facade of Amiens cathedral.
>
>>> i've seen pics of those on the web, but can't seem to find them now
> (help).
>
>
>> Perhaps here:
>> http://w2.amiens.com/cathedrale/part1/rubrik1.htm
>
> yes, that's it, but i thought i had seen better details.
>
> http://w2.amiens.com/cathedrale/imgfr/photo20.gif
>
> the sculpture it self was already among the most ugly and down
> right boring of
> the whole of the m.a., but the recovery of this dreadful polychromy
> really
> puts the icing on the cowpie.
>
>
> http://w2.amiens.com/cathedrale/imgfr/part2/K2big.jpg
>
> http://w2.amiens.com/cathedrale/imgfr/part2/J2big.jpg
>
> talk about *GARISH*, the Romanesque can't hold a candle to this stuff:
>
> http://w2.amiens.com/cathedrale/imgfr/part2/Ebig.jpg
>
> Ayyye, Karumba!
>
> the "making off" (a curious French expression) page is interesting,
> for those
> of us who remember the original coating of black monochromy:
>
> http://w2.amiens.com/cathedrale/part5/rubrik5.htm
>
>> There are several papers on this in Denis Verret, Delphine
>> Steyaert (eds.),
> _La couleur et la pierre: polychromie des portails gothiques: actes du
> colloque, Amiens, 12-14 octobre 2000_ (Paris: Picard, 2002).
>> See the Table of Contents:
>> http://www.arpp.org/diffusion/publications/publications1.htm
>
>
> actually i've got this checked out as we speak --the article on the
> Etampes
> portal is of great interest-- but haven't gotten around to reading
> any of the
> others.
>
> the opening "Quand les statues étaient blanches" by Willibald
> Sauerländer
> will surely be worth reading --he has been one of the best scholars
> working on
> Early Gothic sculpture over the last half century and more.
>
> thanks, John.
>
> c
>
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