Description
Book SynopsisThe most important of Eliane Vergnolle's publications focus on the study of Romanesque art in France. In particular, she has concentrated on the period during which this type of art was born and has investigated the processes which, from the beginning of the 11th century onwards, led to the renewal of monumental sculpture in several regions. Having investigated previous methods of analysis, she has proposed a new way of looking at the chronological order of the first steps in this period, notably from the example of the exceptional workshop which created the abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire. Her study of the Corinthian capital and its multiple transformations came about from a greater understanding of the notion of the Renaissance of Antiquity, which recurs throughout the period.
Other studies concentrate on the role of sculptural decoration in the buildings, as well as the genesis of certain forms of architectural structure. Much of this research has appeared in the form of monographic studies of important individual monuments.
These nineteen studies are principally concerned with the Loire valley, the Berry, the Bourbonnais and Burgundy and they delineate the artistic landscape of those regions which were among the most precocious and the most inventive in the Capetian kingdom.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Un carnet de modèles de l'an mil provenant de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Paris, B.N. lat. 8318 et Rome, Vat. Reg. let 596)
Chronologie et méthode d'analyse: doctrines sur les débuts de la sculpture romane en France
La première sculpture romane de la France moyenne (1010-1050)
Fortune et infortunes du chapiteau corinthien dans le monde roman
Chapiteaux corinthisants de France et d'Italie (IXe-XIe siècles)
Autour d'Anzy-le-Duc: histoire d'un groupe de chapiteaux pré-clunisiens de Bourgogne
Réflexions sur les chapiteaux à feuilles lisses: à propos de Saint-Sever
Les chapiteaux romans de l'église de Bort-les-Orgues (Corrèze)
Le rôle architectural des chapiteaux du haut Moyen Age occidental: remplois, groupes, paires
L'art des frises dans la vallée de la Loire
Passages muraux et escaliers: premières expériences dans l'architecture du XIè siècle
L'église Saint-Vorles de Châtillon-sur-Seine
L'ancien prieuré de Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
L'ancienne église abbatiale de Saint-Pierre de Méobecq
L'église de Meusnes
Saint-Genest de Lavardin
Ebreuil: l'ancienne église abbatiale
L'église Saint-Nazaire de Bourbon-Lancy
Additional Notes
Bibliography of Professor Vergnolle's Publications
Index
