medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
> there are two quite magnificent, very high quality (albeit twisted) columns
with historiated capitals (Nativity, Dreaming Magiae) from (presumably) the
cloister, surely dating within a decade or so of the foundation of the abbey
(1118) which are now in the Louvre.
> i have come across some .jpgs of them on the web, but can't seem to find
them at the moment
probably because those cloister columns are NOT from Vaux, but rather are from
the Benedictine abbey of Coulumbs --close (10 km or so), but no Cigar.
though they do seem to date from the late 1120s or early/mid-1130s.
> they are rare and precious survivals of [one of] the figure style(s) present
in the Chartres <=> Paris region in the period before the "Royal Portals" of
both St. Denis and Chartres, and go some considerable distance towards
exploding the old canard (to the extent that a duck can be exploded) that
there was no "Romanesque" sculpture in that region pre-Suger/Chartres.
all that rank speculation is still true, even if Vaux doesn't deserve the
credit for it (the fact that V. was a Cistercian house built in St. Bernie's
lifetime should have tipped me off that there wouldn't have been very many
historiated sculptures around the place).
apologies for the mis-attribution.
c
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