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From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> Speaking of "as it is generally believed", it's perhaps worth pointing out
that the Abdinghof Portable Altar, though attributed to Roger of
Helmarshausen, is not signed by him. The portable altar in Paderborn that
definitely is his is the Kilian-and-Liborius altar from the cathedral. For
views of these two altars, see:
> http://www.canossa2006.de/index.php?a=66
although Stylistic Analysis --even when performed by a competent practitioner
(which is quite rarely the case, these daze)-- is not an Exact Science,
nonetheless, with patient application and sufficient available exemplars it
can, i believe, result in levels of probability which approach (or even equal)
those available through the use of other historical methodologies.
in the present instance, there is a considerable difference in technique
(niello work vs. repousé relief, i believe), and perhaps even some
considerable distance in time, which, at first glance, might have been the
cause(s) of some evident minor differences in the fold patterns --the "nested
V" patterns so prominent on the Abdinghof piece, for instance
http://www.canossa2006.de/uploads/_downloads/tragaltar_abdinghof_detail.jpg
are not nearly so common --nor as rigidly geometric-- as the ones found on
that of Bishop Henry2
http://www.canossa2006.de/uploads/_downloads/dom_tragaltar_stirnseite.jpg
but, frequently in S.A., the Devil is in the Details, and if we compare the
tiny "Omega" folds along the hems of the two standing figures and the seated
Christ on the latter
http://www.canossa2006.de/uploads/_downloads/dom_tragaltar_stirnseite.jpg
(visible at the higest resolution of the image)
with those of the crouching figure and the King here
http://www.canossa2006.de/uploads/_downloads/Abdinghoftragaltar.jpg
(again, enlarge the image by clicking on it)
we see a considerable resemblance in both their essential conception and
"lyrical" form.
C.R. Dodwell and Peter Lasko (mentioned below, both of whom accepted the
attribution of the APA to RoH) had good and "eyes" well trained for Style.
that, and my own ocularitical abilities (i had a quite *excellent* teacher) is
good enough for me.
c
> On Monday, February 4, 2008, at 8:17 am, christopher crockett wrote:
>
> >
> > From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > Blaise (d. ca. 316, supposedly).
> >
> > > In 1014 Bl. Meinwerk of Paderborn, who was in Rome that year for the
> > coronation of his friend Henry II, acquired a relic of B. for his
> > diocese. In
> > the following year he consecrated that city's Abdinghof monastery,
> > whose relic
> > collection included one of B. placed in its early twelfth-century
portable
> > altar of Sts. Felix and Blasius, now in the Erzbischöfliches
Diözesanmuseum
> > in Paderborn:
> >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/327luc
> >
> >
> > better known in some quarters for its being the work of Roger of
> > Helmarshausen, a.k.a. (it is generally believed) "Theophilus
> > Presbyter"
> >
> > http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072039/Theophilus#10572.hook
> >
> > http://www.enotes.com/oxford-art-encyclopedia/theophilus
> >
> >
http://books.google.com/books?id=xzZjo3YSLbwC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=%22roger+of+helmarshausen%22&source=web&ots=vh3AsMyO_1&sig=MsOH6Ex7-AjHzNkiZ5AJ1-znC1o
> >
> > http://www.jstor.org/view/00076287/ap020175/02a00200/0
> >
> >
> > author of the most comprehensive treatise "On Diverse Arts" we have
> > from the
> > m.a.
> >
> >
http://books.google.com/books?id=MMiLTJqvYnYC&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=%22roger+of+helmarshausen%22&source=web&ots=noSbHEFeNA&sig=Tq3C7gvzmcXOYimbvX96zmlP0CU#PPP1,M1
> >
> >
> > according to his obituary
> >
> > http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030528/ai_n12695942
> >
> > the eminent art historian and specialist in metal work and other
> > "minor arts,"
> > the last project by Peter Lasko
> >
> >
http://books.google.com/books?id=PwJb18lq5gkC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22roger+of+helmarshausen%22&source=web&ots=C9PZPRV_v2&sig=0SUeP94IUexn-iDP3cYEqtS2YaU
> >
> > was to have been "a novel based on the life of the 12th- century monastic
> > goldsmith Roger of Helmarshausen."
> >
> > unfortunately this was not completed --or at least has not been
published,
> > that i can see.
> >
> > c
>
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