Micro-Architecture
ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPE 1250-1400
MICRO-ARCHITECTURE
Rayonnant Gothic and its design principles; 'micro-architecture'
Slide 1: St-Denis, begun 1231
Note the royal tombs, the soaring small shafts each with a function and the mullions running down from the clearstorey through the triforium
Slide 2: Strasbourg Cathedral, west façade, begun 1277, designs 'A' and 'B'
Cathédrale de Strasbourg, façade occidentale (détail)
Vers 1360-1370
Encre noire sur parchemin, lavis, peinture à l'eau
410 x 82,5 cm
Inv. D.22.995.0.14
Slide 3: Paris, Notre Dame, N and S transepts by Jean de Chelles and Pierre de Montreuil, begun c. 1240
Slide 4: Westminster Abbey, tomb of Edmund 'Crouchback' (d. 1296), by Michael of Canterbury?
The shrine and relic associations of micro-architecture; altarpieces
Slide 5: Cologne cathedral, choir, begun 1248, with Shrine of Three Magi, begun c. 1180
Slide 6: Paris, Ste-Chapelle, 1241-8
Slide 7: Evreux, shrine of St-Taurin, completed by 1255
Slide 8: Westminster Abbey, Retable, c. 1270
Slide 9: Hereford, tomb/shrine of St Thomas Cantiloupe, 1280s
Slide 10: Durham Cathedral, Neville screen, 1379
Slide 11: Hawton and Heckington Easter Sepulchres, 1330s
Slide 12: Marienstatt altarpiece (Germany), 1360s
Slide 13: Schloss Tirol altarpiece, Innsbruck, Landesmuseum, c. 1370
Altar von Schloss Tirol, um 1370/73
Wiener Hofmaler, Meister Konrad (urk. seit 1368 genannt)
Öltempera auf Buchenholz, Schrein H 249 cm, B 139 cm, T 28,5 cm
Kunstgeschichtliche Sammlungen, Inv.Nr. Gem 1962
Leihgabe Prämonstratenserstift Wilten, Innsbruck
Slide 14: Jacques de Baerze and Melchior Broederlam, Champmol altarpiece, 1394/9, Dijon, Musee
Slide 15: Aachen, Charlemagne and 'Three-Tower'-reliquaries, 1370s (image not found)
Slide 16: Nuremberg, Schoner Brunnen, begun c. 1385?
Modern copy of a 14thC fountain that looks like a sacrament house
(compare with sacrament house architecture: late example in Nuremberg, St Laurence, 1490s, by Adam Kraffi)
Tombs
Slide 17: Hereford, Bishop Pierre Aquablanca (d. 1268) (image not found)
Slide 18: Canterbury, Archbishop Pecham (d. 1292), by Michael of Canterbury?
Tomb of Archbishop Peckham (d. 1292), wooden effigy (originally with silver mitre),
Northwest transept
Slide 19: Westminster Abbey, 'Crouchback'
Slide 20: Gloucester, Edward II (d. 1327), by Thomas of Canterbury?
Slide 21: Avignon, Pope John XXII (image not found)
Slide 22: Beverley, Percy Tomb, c. 1340
Slide 23: Canterbury, Archbishop Stratford (d. 1348)
Slide 24: Winchester, chantry chapel for Bishop Wykeham (d. 1404)
(compare later example for Bishop Alcock (d. 1486) at Ely)
Micro-Architecture
Slide 25: Eleanor Crosses, 1291ff.
Slide 26: Westminter, St Stephen's Chapel, begun 1292 by Michael of Canterbury
Slide 27: Canterbury, chapter house with prior's throne, c. 1300
Slide 28: Westminster palace, lost murals for Edward II, 1290s (image not found)
Slide 29: Exeter, bishop's throne and pulpitum, designed by Thomas of Witney, 1320s
Slide 30: Southwell, pulpitum, c. 1330
Slide 31: Tomb slab of an architect
Slide 32: Prague, sacristy, c. 1360 by Peter Parler (image not found)
The 'Heavenly Jerusalem'
Slide 33: Reims cathedral, begun 1211
Slide 34: Cologne, window from former Dominican Church, c. 1280
Slide 35: Cologne Cathedral, choir, completed 1322
Slide 36: Tewkesbury, apse windows for the dispensers and de Clares, 1330s
Slide 37: Gloucester, east arm (begun 1337 by Thomas of Canterbury?) and window
10/03/05 Andreas Putz