medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]>
> For medieval art lovers, and those addicted to art-roman,
there is also
http://www.romanes.com/
a larger site, partly because the owner/photographer has a very
"comprehensive" view of what "romanes" might mean.
some of the many, many monuments on the site are quite extensively
represented, while others are not.
alas, St. Savin is one of the latter, so far
http://romanes.com/Saint_Savin/index.html
through a mutual (virtual) friend who is also a French photographer i have
been corresponding with this fellow, giving him a bit of feedback on what an
art historian looks for --or hopes for-- in such photographs.
>I've had it on the very best authority that the wonderful little church, the
former abbatiale of Saints Peter and Benedict, at Perrecy-les-Forges
(Burgundy) will soon be available. (At my request, blushing as I say so...)
I'll let the list know when.
please do so.
it looks like the romanes.com fellow has yet to get to Perrecy.
which has *the* most curious angels i've ever seen on its tympanum
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/assets/aa_image/700/1/9/a/b/19aba3bd5aa6e55b0d8528a984dd40e3a2bfb91c.jpg
that photo, btw, is from the site hosting a small fraction --so far-- of the
massive collection of the Conway Photographic Library of the Courtauld
Institute of Art (London U.)
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/about/conway.html
it is still growing, and has a ways to go.
another, much more massive --but also much more difficult to use--
photographic resource on the web is the "Memoire bases de données" of the
French Ministre de Kulture
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/pres.htm
the interface is extremely clunky, difficult and frustrating to use, and i
estimate that 10-20% [!!] of the captions are just plain *wrong* --overall it
strikes me as a site which was planned by Geniuses and executed by Morons.
but the quality of those older photographs really is frequently just superb
and well worth the trouble of finding them.
for example, these unsupassed shots of the interior of the magnificent church
of St. Mary's of Etampes were taken by the great architectural historian
Lefevre-Pontalis, around the beginning of the last century :
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0179/sap01_lp009324_p.jpg
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0179/sap01_lp009325_p.jpg
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0179/sap01_lp009327_p.jpg
and by one of his near-contemporaries
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0261/sap01_19l00585_p.jpg
compare them with the quite adequate --but clearly inferior-- efforts of the
owner of the romanes.com site
http://emmanuel.pierre2.free.fr//FR-Etampes-Notre_Dame_du_Fort-3413-0022.jpg
http://emmanuel.pierre2.free.fr//FR-Etampes-Notre_Dame_du_Fort-3413-0023.jpg
http://emmanuel.pierre2.free.fr//FR-Etampes-Notre_Dame_du_Fort-3413-0021.jpg
there's more to good photography than just pointing and shooting.
> And you're welcome.
don't mention it, MG.
any time.
c
"What about the older ones [Indians] ?"
"Well, we can't seem to cure them of the idea that our Everyday Life is only
an Illusion, behind which is the Reality of Dreams"
--Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo"
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083946
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