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From: Henk <[log in to unmask]>
> Wow, Chris, these are very good sculptures. Thanks for sharing.
you bet.
the on-line photos are not nearly as good as those in the Marburg archives
(which have, generally, never been surpassed).
it is very, very expressive stuff, linked in some way to the "mature"
"Romanesque" of, say, Vienne and the Rhone Valley --a full generation beyond
the "Cluniac" sculpture of Burgundy generally and the much-over-rated
(primarily because of his own horn-blowing) "Gislebertus" and well on the way
to the "Baroque" phase of "Romanesque" which we see at, say, Charlieu and
Nazareth.
the Autun statues are about 3/4 life size and were (apparently) originally
arranged as a kind of "tableau vivant" scene around the actual "tomb" of St.
Lazarus.
within the confines of a (no doubt painted and carefully light articulated)
small shrine building, the effect of the ensemble must have been particularly
striking to contemporary observers, greatly enhanced by the "realism" (i do so
much hate that word) of the sculptures themselves.
c
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> Van: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Christopher Crockett
> Verzonden: donderdag 29 juli 2010 18:16
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> Onderwerp: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 29. July
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > 2) Mary of Bethany and Lazarus of Bethany (d. 1st cent.).
>
> > In the Latin West....In 1147 relics claimed to be L.'s ...were placed in
a
> shrine in a church dedicated to him at Autun (Sane-et-Loire) in Burgundy
> that later became that city's cathedral.
>
>
> the shrine/tomb/mausoleum in the (then) collegial church of St. Lazare is
one
> of the more extraordinary monuments from the 12th c. to quite nearly be
lost
> to us in its entirety (but surely belonged to a genre which was much, much
> more common).
>
> destroyed in the mid-18th c., a large number of fragments have been
recovered
> and are now mostly found in the local museum, most of them of quite
> extraordinarily high quality:
>
>
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/autun-musee-rolin-photos/slides/xti_2811p
>
>
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/autun-musee-rolin-photos/slides/xti_2812p
>
>
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/autun-musee-rolin-photos/slides/xti_2837p
>
>
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/autun-musee-rolin-photos/slides/xti_2830p
>
>
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/autun-musee-rolin-photos/slides/xti_2833p
>
>
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/autun-musee-rolin-photos/slides/xti_2835p
>
>
> though occasionally attributed to the 1170s, a date in the 1140s is more
> likely, an inscription telling use that it is the work of a monk named
> "Martinus," who is described thus:
>
> Martinus monachus lapidum
> mirabilis arte
> Hoc opus exsculpsit stephano
> sub presule magno
>
> there were two Bishops named Stephen in the 12th c., and this accounts, in
> part, for the variation in the dates of this monument.
>
>
> most of the recovered fragments were first published here:
>
> Richard Hamann, Das Lazarusgrab in Autun, Marburger Jahrbuch fr
> Kunstwissenschaft, VIII-IX, 1936, pp. 182-328.
>
> http://www.jstor.org/stable/1348511
> (copy available to anyone who wishes, upon request.)
>
> most recently updated in an exhibition held at the local museum and
published
> here:
>
> Neil Stratford, Le mausole de Saint Lazare Autun, in Le tombeau de
> Saint Lazare et la sculpture romane Autun aprs Gislebertus (Autun:
> Imprimerie Pelux, 1985), pp. 11-38.
>
> which is not available to me, but is summarized by Francis Salet, in the
> Bulletin monumental, CXLV, 1987, pp. 242-245. (copy available on request.)
>
>
> i have not been able to find any pictures of it's reconstruction on-line,
but
> the shrine building itself --which took the form of a miniature church--
was
> quite large, 20 feet or so tall, and located near the main altar of the
> church.
>
> i happen to be working on this monument at present, and would be happy so
> share what little i know about it with anyone here who might be interested.
>
> c
>
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