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This ties in with our earlier discussion on painted fonts. We really don't like it. They apparently did. Traces of paint even on medieval alabaster tombs - it seems like sacrilege.. .What to do?
We are actually planning to get the same effect with the new wall paintings in the church from Llandeilo Talybont which has been rebuilt at the Welsh National History Museum at St Fagan's. People should be shocked by the brightness of the colour. But that's walls, not painting on stonework.
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
Head of History
School of Education/Ysgol Addysg
University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Caerleon Campus/Campws Caerllion, PO /Blwch Post 179
Newport/Casnewydd NP18 3YG, Wales/Cymru
Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher Crockett
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Saint Radegund
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From: Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]>
> Sainte-Radegonde was the "official" student parish in Poitiers when I was a
student there in '63. Art-roman doesn't seem to find the church appealing but
I loved it:
> http://www.art-roman.net/poitierssr/poitierssr.htm
yes, he's got his own rather specially constructed ideas about what "l'art
roman" should look like:
"Malheureusement, des peintures d'assez mauvais goût...prive cette église de
ce sentiment de paix et d'harmonie qui émane de tant d'églises romanes."
it certainly looks like 19th c. paint, but may well be close to the original
in original "goût".
the jarring garishness puts me in mind of the colors which were recently (more
or less) discovered under the centuries of black grime which covered the
sculptures of the west facade of Amiens cathedral.
i've seen pics of those on the web, but can't seem to find them now (help).
really nauseating stuff but, apparently, quite original.
c
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