High Romanesque Sculpture in the Duchy of Aquitaine, c.1090-1140

by Tcherikover, Anat

• ISBN13: 9780198174103
• ISBN10: 0198174101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This study traces a regional school of Romanesque sculpture that formed against the background of the powerful feudal principality of Aquitaine. The school's combination of political prominence, economic prosperity, and keen response to ecclesiastical reform made it one of the most innovative of its time.

Table of Contents

LIST OF PLATES	ix	(16)
LIST OF FIGURES	xxv	(1)
LIST OF MAPS	xxv
INTRODUCTION	1	(4)
1. THE COUNTY OF POITOU, c.1090-1120	5	(36)
A. The Heritage of the Eleventh Century Church Patronage and the Gregorian Reform; Architectural Ornamentalism; Capital-Carvers, Painters, and Figural Imagery	7	(11)
B. Cross-Currents Workshop Diversity; the School of Melle; Figural Mini-Programmes; Parthenay-le-Vieux and the Ornamental Programme	18	(11)
C. The Poitou-Loire Idiom The Facade of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes; Figural Slab-Reliefs; the Circle of Thouars; the Regional Duality of Poitou	29	(12)
2. THE RISE OF THE SOUTH, c.1090-1120	41	(30)
A. The Saintongeais Idiom The Shift of Regional Orientation; Saint-Europe at Saintes; Italianate Fashions and the Enhancement of Ornament	43	(9)
B. Between Poitou and Saintonge Aulnay-de-Saintonge; the First Workshop of Aulnay; Imagery and Ornamentation in Conflict	52	(10)
C. The Southern Idiom of Angouleme Bishop Gerard's Cathedral; the Beginnings of the Angouleme Workshops; the Roman and the Romanesque: Some Open Questions	62	(9)
3. CHURCH FACADES AND THE MONUMENTAL FIGURE PROGRAMME, UP TO 1128	71	(32)
A. The Architectural Framework The Chronology of Facades; the Poitou-Loire Idiom and the Ascending Scheme; the Decorative Portal; Angouleme and its Influence; Introduction to Facade Sculpture	73	(9)
B. The Frontispiece of the Church Triumphant A Note on Revisions and Restorations; the Iconographical Framework; Revelation and the Terrestrial World; Church, Pope, and Gregorian Imagery; the Triumph of the Reform	82	(13)
C. The Rise of the Figure-Carver Statuary at Angouleme; Specialization	95	(8)
4. THE ORNAMENTAL DRIFT, c.1120-30 AND ONWARDS	103	(32)
A. The Ornamentalist Architectural Decorations after Angouleme; the Two Trends of Saintes; the Second Workshop of Aulnay	105	(6)
B. The Poitevin Workshops The Chevet of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes; Notre-Dame-la-Grande at Poitiers; Other Variants	111	(7)
C. Saintonge and Its Influence The Abbaye aux Dames at Saintes; the Exuberant Style; the Experimenting Ornamentalist	118	(8)
D. Architectural Sculpture at the Crossroads The Emergence of an Aquitainian Regional School; the Theory of Architectural Sculpture; the Later Career of the First Workshop of Aulnay	126	(9)
5. THE PROMISE AND FAILURE OF AQUITAINIAN PROTO-GOTHIC, c.1130-40 AND ONWARDS	135	(34)
A. A New Generation of Poitevin Figure-Carvers The Third Workshop of Aulnay and the New Type of Portal; Stylistic Variants between Poitou and the South; Encounters with the Older Workshops	137	(10)
B. The Moralizing Portal Programme The Iconographical Framework; Moralizing Themes; Judgement of God and Judgement of the Church; the Dissemination of a Thematic Scheme	147	(10)
C. The Waning of the South Aquitainian Proto-Gothic; the Regional Duality of Poitou; Figural Conservatism and the Ornamental Swamp; Changing Powers	157	(12)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	169	(12)
INDEX	181