The worlds of Villard de Honnecourt : the portfolio, medieval technology, and gothic monuments / edited by George Brooks, Maile S. Hutterer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, George (Professor of medieval studies), editor.

Hutterer, Maile S., editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art ; v, 15.

AVISTA studies in medieval technology, science, and art ; volume15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century.

Villard.

Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century. Album de Villard de Honnecourt.

Architectural drawing, Medieval--France.

Architectural drawing, Medieval.

Architecture, Gothic--France.

Architecture, Gothic.

Artists--France--Biography.

Artists.

Cathedrals--Europe--History.

Cathedrals.

Art and technology--Europe--History.

Art and technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 588 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Contents:

Introduction / George Brooks and Maile Hutterer

AVISTA and its publications : a brief history / Ellen M. Shortell

An essay on Villard de Honnecourt and Cambrai Cathedral / Carl F. Barnes, Jr.

Villard de Honnecourt : gothic carpenter / George Brooks

The counterweight trebuchet, the history of its name in medieval France and Britain, and the terminology of its components in Villard de Honnecourt / William Sayers

Representational conventions and Villard's architectural drawings / Maile S. Hutterer

Further beyond Villard : the rose window design at Saint-Quentin / Ellen Shortell

Through a glass, darkly : Villard's notebook, the liberal arts, and the problem of architectural meaning / Erik Gustafson

Mortar, measure, masonry : who created the gothic style? / John James

Hugues Libergier and his instruments / Nancy Wu

Like clockwork : timely authorial mechanisms in Guillaume de Machaut / Kathleen Wilson Ruffo

Late medieval angel machines / Amy Gillette

ReCOGnition : revisiting medieval gearing from Vitruvius to print / Steven A. Walton

Warrior Kings and savvy abbots : the depiction of contemporary costume on the cross of the scriptures at Clonmacnois / Maggie M. Williams

To sea and be seen : reconstruction of the strategic building program at Maillezais Abbey / Mickey Abel

Adaptation and audience : remodeling Notre-Dame d'Étampes in the thirteenth century / Sarah Thompson

Design in the details : the choir of the Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand / Michael T. Davis

From half to full palmier : factors contributing to the final chevet design of Toulouse's Jacobin Church / Richard Alfred Sundt

Holy Toledo redux : reconsidering art-historical taxonomy and the morphology of Toledo Cathedral / Robert Bork

The reach of the gothic : monastic architecture and the intersection of traditions in Eastern Europe / Alice Isabella Sullivan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt

ISBN:

9789004529106

9004529101

Publisher Number:

40031599450

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.