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Flamboyant architecture and medieval technicality, c. 1400-c. 1530 : a micro-history of the rise of artistic consciousness at the end of Middle Ages

Title
Flamboyant architecture and medieval technicality, c. 1400-c. 1530 : a micro-history of the rise of artistic consciousness at the end of Middle Ages / Jean-Marie Guillouët ; translation, Jane MacAvock.
Author
Guillouët, Jean Marie
Publication
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]

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Additional Authors
MacAvock, Jane
Description
xvii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 29 cm.
Summary
This book seeks to further our understanding of the socio-genesis of artistic modernity by turning to micro-history. It explores a late-medieval decorative procedure that emerged and spread in northern and central France from the early fifteenth century to the start of the following century. Using the well-known miniature, the Building of Solomon's temple in Jerusalem from the fifteenth-century codex of Les Antiquités judaïques as a starting point, this studydeals with architecture and technical knowledge of builders. This investigation unpacks and reveals many aspects of the technical and visual culture of late medieval craftsmen and artists. The virtuosic skills these artisans displayed are worthy of inclusion in the development of technical practices of Flamboyant Gothic architecture. They also reflect broader cultural and social configurations, which go far beyond the history of building. This micro-historical perspective on what can be called hyper-technical Gothic contributes to our appreciation of the role of technical mastery in establishing social hierarchies and artistic individuation processes during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period.
Series Statement
Architectura medii aevi, 2295-3493 ; vol. 12
Uniform Title
Architectura medii aevi ; v. 12.
Alternative Title
Flamboyant architecture and medieval technicality ; the rise of artistic consciousness at the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400-c. 1530
Subject
Note
  • "The rise of artistic consciousness at the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400-c. 1530"--Subtitle from cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Technical savoir-faire as historical topic -- Slate inlay : A technical history -- Social history of a skill -- Microarchitecture and represented space -- Virtuosity, Varietas and Captatio benevolentiae.
ISBN
  • 9782503577296
  • 2503577296
LCCN
2021288276
OCLC
  • on1105606156
  • 1105606156
  • SCSB-9539385
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library