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Flamboyant architecture and medieval technicality (c. 1400-c. 1530) : a micro-history of the rise of artistic consciousness at the end of Middle Ages / Jean-Marie Guillouët ; translation, Jane MacAvock.
Fine Arts Library NA480 .G8513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guillouët, Jean Marie, author.
- Series:
- Architectura medii aevi ; v. 12.
- Architectura medii aevi ; vol. XII
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Gothic--France.
- Architecture, Gothic.
- Decoration and ornament, Gothic.
- Architecture, Medieval.
- France.
- Architecture, Medieval--France.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--France.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Decoration and ornament, Gothic--France.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v., [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book seeks to further our understanding of the socio-genesis of artistic modernity by turning to micro-history. It explores a late-medieval decorative procedure that emerged and spread in northern and central France from the early fifteenth century to the start of the following century. Using the well-known miniature, the Building of Solomon's temple in Jerusalem from the fifteenth-century codex of Les Antiquités judaïques as a starting point, this studydeals with architecture and technical knowledge of builders. This investigation unpacks and reveals many aspects of the technical and visual culture of late medieval craftsmen and artists. The virtuosic skills these artisans displayed are worthy of inclusion in the development of technical practices of Flamboyant Gothic architecture. They also reflect broader cultural and social configurations, which go far beyond the history of building. This micro-historical perspective on what can be called ?hyper-technical? Gothic contributes to our appreciation of the role of technical mastery in establishing social hierarchies and artistic individuation processes during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Technical savoir-faire as historical topic
- Slate inlay : A technical history
- Social history of a skill
- Microarchitecture and represented space
- Virtuosity, Varietas and Captatio benevolentiae.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-164).
- ISBN:
- 9782503577296
- 2503577296
- OCLC:
- 1105606156
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