medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
this is very cool!!! I'm going to save the image for my students when I
teach about parishes. I can't wait to see it in person, but I think the
dollar and pound need to become better friends first.
Katherine French
Gerallt Nash wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Henk
>
>How right you are. We at St Fagans: National History Museum, in Wales,
>have recently completed the re-erection of a small medieval church which
>has been refurbished to show how it would have looked pre-Reformation
>(i.e. early 16th c). This involved re-creating or replicating features
>such as the rood screen and statues that were lost, as well as painting
>copies of wall-paintings that were discovered in the church before it
>was moved to the Museum - the originals have been conserved and are
>currently in store, though some are also on display. We have used the
>same types of pigments and techniques as would have been used when the
>paintings were originally painted and the result is quite spectacular
>(image of work in progress attached). We will shortly be starting phase
>2 of the project, but the work carried out to-date gives a good
>impression of how the interior of a small church would have looked in
>the Middle Ages.
>
>Gerallt D. Nash
>Senior Curator, Historic Buildings
>National History Museum
>St Fagans
>CARDIFF, CF5 3DW, Wales - GB
>
>
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>culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Henk 't
>Jong
>Sent: 07 December 2007 11:29
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] colour/color of statues?
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
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>Hi Chris,
>
>Believe me I know what pigments (and they did not use vegetable dyes in
>wall-painting) look like. I'm an artist, have experimented with medieval
>painting techniques and seen medieval colours in manuscripts and on
>walls from close-up. The basics have not changed: ochre is still ochre,
>and so are malachite and azurite, sootblack and leadwhite. Through time
>and athmospherical causes colours have faded or have been covered in
>soot, but when these colours were newly painted they were as garish as
>you think the projections are. In the mean time these cannot really be
>compared, because they are projected (usually after dark) on bare stone,
>which has a different effect than quite dull paint-surfaces. The light
>and dark effect with laser lighting so does not look as it was in
>reality, but the intensity of the colours is the same as that of the
>medieval paints. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit in with your perception.
>
>Not long ago there was an exposition in Amsterdam about the colours on
>classical statues. Scientists had painstakingly reconstructed the paints
>and had copies of famous statues coloured as they originally had been.
>You should have heard the outcry: this can't have been true! Our
>classical era wasn't as vulgarly gaudy as was shown! In short: people
>did not believe their eyes and had trouble leaving the clichees of
>perfectly white Greek temples and people walking around in white sheets
>behind. I sense a similar reluctance with you
>
>You'd better believe that the outsides and insides of churches were
>indeed as garish as is shown in the laser-lights in Amiens, just not in
>the same intensity. And after a few years a kind of patina tempered the
>colours. But the colours in Maastricht never were medieval, but a (much)
>lighter, and in the case of blue, darker version of the real ones. I've
>had that confirmed in a recent exhibition of Cuypers' work.
>
>The statues you see in the St Servaas portal are all 19th c (the church
>was restored by Cuypers between 1858 and 1908) and most of the scuplted
>arches are as well. The style of the figures now is more 14th and 15th c
>than 13th, even if the original work dated to the first half of the 13th
>c. I've learned to be very critical of all 'medieval' church sculpture
>as most of it has been renewed, restored, replaced and restyled during
>the 19th c. And that includes French churches and cathedrals. Most
>people have no idea how influential Viollet-le-Duc was in that aspect.
>
>
>Henk
>
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