Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
0520073711
,
0520073738
Content:
The archaeological study of restorations to the three western portals at Saint-Denis began in summer 1968 under the aegis of the late Sumner McKnight Crosby. Having spent the better part of his professional career studying the architecture of the twelfth-century church and excavating for the remains of earlier structures, he wanted to resolve the differences of opinion about what, if anything, remained of the twelfth-century sculpture on the western portals.[*] The drastic and stylistically unsympathetic restoration in the nineteenth century by the sculptor Joseph-Sylvestre Brun overshadowed the twelfth-century aesthetic to the point that some critics dismissed the sculptural ensemble as completely restored
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Blum, Pamela Z. Early Gothic Saint-Denis Berkeley [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 1992 ISBN 0520073738
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520073711
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Klosterkirche Saint-Denis
;
Westportal
;
Restaurierung
;
Geschichte 1800-1990
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