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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Wednesday, December 19, 2007, at 11:01 am, christopher crockett wrote: > From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> > > > Does anyone seriously maintain that, as a generality, visible interior > surfaces in ecclesiastical and in civic buildings in this style were _not_ > painted? > > > seems like a week or so ago someone on this list was maintaining that > Bareity > was a possible (and provable) state of being for (at least some) "romanesque" > buildings. > > whether that guy was serious or not i cannot say; but i'll defend to > the Death > his Right to be Dead Wrong. > Well yes. But how any of that is directly pertinent to your comment on the painting of "gothic" churches eludes me. As you will recall, what you had said was: > From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> > > > This one has views of frescoes restored in 1994: > > http://perso.orange.fr/police.daniel/Riboul/Tours.htm > > > so much for gothic buildings not being painted. Are you now equating "romanesque" with "gothic"? > then there was the discussion about how extensive the practice of painting > Faux Ashlar actually was (and the whyforance of it). Similarly, I had thought that the Faux Ashlar discussion had focussed on *pre-gothic* structures. > having a Senior Moment, John? Possibly. But I don't see anything in the foregoing matter to indicate that. Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html