Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness

ISBN-13: 9781138265400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 610 str.

Evelyn Staudinger Lane; Elizabeth Carson Pastan; Ellen M. Shortell

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Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness's influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Saint Victor, this interdisciplinary collection brings together the work of thirty scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Each author has contributed an original article that engages with ideas formulated in Caviness's wide-ranging scholarship.

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Contents: Introduction. Part 1: The Material Object: The glazing of Siena Cathedral's fenestra rotunda magna: preliminary observations from a production standpoint, Renée K. Burnam; Holding hands in the Virgin Chapel at Beauvais Cathedral, Michael W. Cothren; The Asseburg-Hedwig glass re-emerges, Timothy Husband; Material meaning: stained glass and the questions of authenticity, reception, workshop practice, and aesthetics, Virginia Chieffo Raguin. Part 2: Documentary Reconstruction: Prior Wibert's fountain houses: service and symbolism at Christ Church, Canterbury, Peter J. Fergusson; Sir William Horne and his 'scowred' window at Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, Richard Marks; Learning from Muskau: the Throne of Solomon window from the Carmelite Church at Boppard and its donation by Jakob von Sierck, Archbishop of Trier (1439-1456), Rüdiger Becksmann; Images lost/texts found: the original glazing program at Notre-Dame of Noyon, Evelyn Staudinger Lane. Part 3: Post-Disciplinary Approaches: Stained glass and architecture at Saint-Remi of Reims and at Braine: distinct or complementary disciplines?, Anne Prache; The integrated cathedral: thoughts on 'holism' and Gothic architecture, Paul Crossley; The sacred topography of Chartres Cathedral: the reliquary chasse of the Virgin in the liturgical choir and stained-glass decoration, Claudine Lautier; Frames of vision: architecture and stained glass at Clermont Cathedral, Michael T. Davis; 'The widows' money' and artistic integration in the axial chapel at Saint-Quentin, Ellen M. Shortell. Part 4: Multiple Readings: The center portal on the West façade at Reims: axes of meaning, Dorothy Gillerman; Seeing and understanding narrative and thematic method in the stained glass of the choir of Königsfelden ca. 1330-1340, Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz; Modes of seeing Margaret of Antioch at Fornovo di Taro, Elizabeth C. Parker; Archbishops named and unnamed in the stained glass of Reims, Meredith Parsons Lillich. Part 5: Gender & Rec