Employing a new methodology, this text proposes a radically different biography of the Royal Portal at Chartres that has far-reaching implications for the study of Gothic architecture. It concludes that the style and cultural context of Ile de France sculpture is less defined than once thought.
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This book makes a significant contribution to the study of medieval sculpture, primarily because it looks at an old set of problems with a fresh point of view. As in his first book, Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy, Armi's research is based on exhaustive visual analysis. Armi dares to question certain long-held assumptions for example, that the Headmaster was indeed the head of the workshop that created the Royal Portal; that his art derived in a vague way from Northern Burgundian Romanesque; that Gothic sculpture was nevertheless a product of the mid-twelfth century 'culture' of the ÃŽle-de-France. These assumptions had led to a virtual dead end in art historical research on the sources of Chartres. Armi has succeeded in attacking the problem from a different angle and has proposed a new solution. Whether or not his hypothesis is accepted, he will surely cause many people to rethink the whole issue of the origins of Gothic sculpture. --Elizabeth Bradford Smith, The Pennsylvania State University
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C. Edson Armi is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: The New Aesthetic of Cluny III (1983), winner of the CINOA International Art History Prize, and The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities (1988), both published by Penn State.
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