Gothic Space : Studies in Celebration of Stephen Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

M. Boivin, Katherine.

Series:

AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Series

AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Series ; v.19

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2025.

Summary:

This volume engages the subject of Gothic space from multiple perspectives inspired by Stephen Murray's prolific work on medieval art, architecture, and culture.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copy Right Page

Contents

Preface

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Stephen Murray: Homo Cathedralis

1 Introduction

2 Seeing and Narrating Medieval Architecture": Remarks Deliveredon December 12, 2019, at the Honorary Doctorate ConferralCeremony at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne(Amiens, France)

3 Epilogue

Selected Publications by Stephen Murray

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Chapter 1 The Real Spaces of Gothic Architecture

2 "Gothic Space" (Again)

3 Preconditions of Gothic Space

3.1 Consecration

3.2 The Participant

3.3 Ornament

3.4 Sightlines

4 Gothic Spaces

4.1 Virtual Space

4.2 Iconographic Space

4.3 Typological Space

5 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Part 1 Design

Chapter 2 The Gothic Architect in Context

1 The Late Antique and Early Modern Architect

2 The Vitruvian Architect

3 The Contemporary Architect

4 The Medieval Architect (Again)

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Chapter 3 The Plan of Romanesque Lincoln Cathedral: Principles of Design, Geometry, and Metrology

2 Archaeological Data

3 Principles of Design, Geometry, and Metrology

4 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Amiens, Octagons, and the A-A Elevation

1 Chartres

2 Reims

3 Amiens

4 Cologne

Chapter 5 Diversity, Unity, and Space at the Cathedrals of Tournai and Clermont-Ferrand.

1 Introduction

2 Tournai

3 The Choir of Clermont-Ferrand

4 Diversity and Invention: Tournai, Clermont, Saint-Denis, and Villard de Honnecourt

Manuscript Sources

Chapter 6 The Precarious Nature of Gothic

1 Basic Desires

2 Precarious Structure and the Sublime

3 Precarious Structure and Prayer

4 Miraculous Levitation

5 Conclusion

Part 2 Elements

Chapter 7 A Change of Plan: The Role of the Keystone in French Architecture from the Eleventh through the Thirteenth Centuries

1 Late Eleventh- and Early Twelfth-Century Rib Vaults and Their Keystones

2 Rib Vaults and Rounded Spaces

3 High-Vault Hemicycle Keystones

4 Decoration and Iconography

Chapter 8 Illuminating the Northern Rose Window of Troyes Cathedral

1 Building Troyes Cathedral

2 Glazing the North Transept Portal

3 Contemporaneous Projects: The Choir Screen

4 Illuminating the Interior

Chapter 9 Baux et sumptueux ouvraiges: Invention and Visibility in the Transepts of Saint-Quentin

1 The Choir Transept

2 The Thirteenth-Century Building: Unstable Beauty

3 Averting Disaster, Preserving the View

4 Fifteenth-Century Repairs

5 Rebuilding the South Choir Transept

6 Function and Movement

7 Rose Windows, Illumination, and Revelation

8 Conclusion

Chapter 10 The "Gothic" Window in the Church of Beta Maryam (Lalibela, Ethiopia): Mamluk Aesthetics and the Iconography of Spolia in Medieval Ethiopia

1 Beta Maryam between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries.

2 Crusader Spolia in Cairo and Mamluk Aesthetics in Solomonic Ethiopia

3 The Iconography of Spolia in Medieval Ethiopia

Chapter 11 Fifteenth-Century "Double-Choir" Churches

1 Purpose

2 Spatial and Aesthetic Joining

3 Integration

Chapter 12 On "Microarchitecture": A Gothic Phenomenon

1 Defining Microarchitecture

2 Drawings and Their Authors

3 The Issue of Iconography

4 Nomenclature

Unpublished Material

Published Material

Part 3 Images

Chapter 13 Lost in Translation: The Textile Inspiration for Patterned Architectural Stone in Early Gothic Buildings

1 Places and Patterns

2 Context

3 Exotic Sources

4 Motivation, Recognition, Significance

5 Significant Souvenirs

6 The Skeuomorphic Aesthetic

7 The Influence of Garments

Chapter 14 Pattern, Resistance, and Change in Gothic Space: The Foliate Frieze at Notre-Dame of Amiens

1 Rethinking the Foliate Frieze at Amiens: Enduring Questions and Opportunities

2 Variation, Experimentation, and Production at Amiens: A New Analysis

3 Textiles and Polychromy: Liturgical Implications

4 Conclusion: Miraculous Plant Life, Mutability, and Meaning in Gothic Space

Chapter 15 Beyond "Beyond the Barrier": New Encounters with Choir Screens in Italy, Germany, and France

1 New Encounters with Choir Screens

2 Back to Amiens

Chapter 16 The Agency of the Frame in Gothic Sculpture from the Thirteenth through the Sixteenth Centuries

1 Behavior of the Frame.

2 Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral

3 Framing Solutions in Later French Medieval Sculpture

4 The Dialectic of the Frame and the Framed

5 Modes of Devotion

6 Conclusion

Chapter 17 Picturing Salvation: Hugh Ashton's Window at St. Michael-le-Belfrey, York

1 Reconstructing Hugh Ashton's Window: The Post-Medieval History of the Glass

2 Donor Identity: Individual, Collective, and Sublime

3 Weapons and Wounds: The Devotional Dimension of the Ashton Window

Printed Sources

Part 4 Legacies

Chapter 18 The Apse Fresco from the Church of Santa Maria de Mur in Space: Shifting Perspectives on a Monumental Romanesque Painting from Catalonia

1 The Romanesque Frescoes of Catalonia

2 The Movement of the Frescoes into Museum Settings

3 The Christ Enthroned Fresco from Santa Maria de Mur: Iconography and Experience

Chapter 19 Busting the "Medieval" Busts at the Barnes Foundation

1 Preamble

2 Periodization of the Middle Ages

3 The Art Market: Medieval and African Art

4 Busting the "Busts"

5 "Proto-Picasso"?

6 Busted: The Identity of the Sculptor Revealed

Chapter 20 The Fortification Face-Lift: Nineteenth-Century "Restoration" at Monflanquin and Rudelle

1 Church Architecture in Southwest France

2 Formal Sources: Cistercian and Military Architecture

3 Fortified Elements of Narbonne Cathedral

4 Fortified Churches and Bastide Towns

5 The Facelift at Rudelle

Chapter 21 Plotting Fantastic Spaces: Gothic Architecture in Contemporary Cinema.

1 Gothic in Visual Culture since the Eighteenth Century

2 Gothic and Fictional History

3 Gothic and Hierarchy

4 Gothic and Moral Order

Chapter 22 Notre-Dame of Paris, Material and Immaterial

2 Architectural Fragments as Relics

3 Laser Data as Contact Relics

4 Digital Repository as Reliquary

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-74718-4

OCLC:

1592689376