medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear medieval-religion list members,
I am forwarding this message on behalf of a former colleague, Avril
Henry.
Best wishes,
George
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George Ferzoco
Lecturer and Director of Italian Studies
School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester,
University Road, LEICESTER LE1 7RH, UNITED KINGDOM
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The web-site described is entirely free (courtesy of the Leverhulme
Trust and
UK government funding of the Visual Arts Data Service). No financial
gain of
any kind accrues to me or to the estate of my late co-author from its
use;
indeed, as explained below, the Specification and Template were given to
the
web-site producer-a gift intended to be of help to other academics.
With best wishes,
Avril Henry
Professor Emerita ([log in to unmask])
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TO ALL MEDIEVALISTS: A NEW, FREE, ON-LINE ART RESOURCE
Avril K. Henry and Anna C. Hulbert
Exeter Cathedral Keystones and Carvings:
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Medieval Interior Sculptures and their
Polychromy
This free website offers a comprehensive visual and verbal explanatory
catalogue of all the figurative medieval bosses, corbels and labelstops
(with
a few other interior carvings) which are an integral part of the
medieval
interior construction of the Cathedral. It is at:
http://www.exetercathedral.tell-com.com
and at
http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/
(VADS--the Visual Arts Data Service "providing, preserving and promoting
digital resources for Research, Learning and Teaching"). Click 'search
collections' in the left-hand column, then 'Exeter Cathedral' in the
right-hand column.
The web-site will interest medievalists, art historians, architects,
lovers of
Gothic cathedrals, sculpture and polychromy---and anyone who would like
to
know the often spectacular medieval carvings in Exeter Cathedral, Devon,
England.
The web-site may also interest anyone seeking funding for academic
web-site
production, for Tell Communications now own the template we designed,
and it
could easily be modified to suit any project linking words to images,
whatever
the discipline (art, illustration, geology, archaeology, medicine,
history,
literature, etc.) The subsequent availability of the template was one
reason
for its production being funded by my Emeritus Fellowship from the
Leverhulme
Trust, whose invaluable and imaginative support is gratefully
acknowledged.
You can easily move from anywhere to anywhere else on the site, using
numerous
hot-spots in texts, miniplans placed at strategic points to locate the
position of any object in the cathedral, and Navigation Buttons. All
these
usually lead to thumbnail images of the objects with accompanying
descriptions, and thence to enlargements.
The Navigation Buttons are:
CATHEDRAL PLAN gives access to all the major objects treated (the rest
are
accessible via Contents or Catalogue). Clickable miniplans appear where
appropriate.
SEARCH (Simple Search) is self-explanatory.
CONTENTS is possibly the simplest way into the material.
CATALOGUE provides a complete, visual and verbal explanatory record of
all
the recorded objects.
INTRODUCTION contextualises the sculptures in the architectural history
of the
building.
IMAGES gives access to clickable thumbnail images of all the treated
objects,
conveniently arranged in cathedral-area groups.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and FOOTNOTES provide the usual scholarly infrastructure.
My co-author Anna Hulbert died in March 2000. She and I always hoped
that the
resource would be useful to researchers, exploited by teachers, and
enjoyed by
everyone. It is at least, thanks to the medieval craftsmen, lovely to
look at.
Avril Henry
Professor Emerita, University of Exeter, UK.
([log in to unmask]: Your comments on, and corrections to the website
would be
most welcome)
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