medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> > It has always baffled me why some of the most remarkable masonry
> > structures
> ever built should be plastered over, with fake masonry painted over
> the real stone walls. This is far from being "baretity", or whatever.
> I can't help thinking it represents some impossible -- possibly
> transcendent -- level of idealism, or some such thing.
>
> http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR11/IA00059542
> /images/IA00059542_034.jpg
>
> i should think that plastering *that* would have been seen as a
> minimal necessity --whether it was then painted with figurative
> frescoes or simply with Faux Ashlar is another question.
Point taken, Christopher, but why, for instance, would the interior of Chartres Cathedral be
similarly painted in faux ashlar, when there is some pretty darn nice quarry stone and stone
cutting evident?
Jim Bugslag
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