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Sorry, this was the false button: I wanted to recommend the pictures
and the list to a friend. She - the art hostorian Barbara Schedl
([log in to unmask]) - made a computer reconstruction of the
colors of the so called "Riesentor" at St. Stephan in Vienna and
could you provide with some examples of her work offlist.
yours
karl
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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