Description
Book SynopsisMaylis Baylé has had the advantage of a dual training in history and the history of art. She is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Université de Paris I), author of a work on the Romanesque sculpture of Normandy, and an authority in the field of Romanesque monumental art. A method of rigorous analysis that "integrates physical examination and stylistic study has "enabled her to follow the activity and the advances of the workshops of sculptors in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, particularly in Normandy, their links with English art well before 1066, and the importance of Burgundy and the Île-de-France in the transmission of artistic developments. The sculpture of the eleventh century is closely related to the styles of miniature painting and the luxury arts these "rapports are maintained for a long time in Normandy, England and Scandinavia, where they persist well beyond the end of the Romanesque period. These contacts between scriptoria and sculptors, along with an obvious community of styles between the various forms of artistic creation, constitute a recurring 'leitmotiv' through this collection of articles and lead to a new approach to Romanesque art.
Another aspect of Maylis Baylé's work relates to "techniques of construction and the history of medieval "architecture, with several points of interest: the artistic revival around the year 1000 and the relations attested then between Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Beauvais and England, and the structure of walls and techniques of vaulting. Monographs of monuments constituting significant stages of this "development, in Normandy, the Loire, Champagne and the Bourbonnais illustrate various aspects of these problems. For some earlier articles, Dr Baylé has added a scientific and bibliographical update.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Sculpture préromane et romane: Les chapiteaux de la chapelle Sainte-Paix à Caen
Aspects de la sculpture normande autour de 1100: à propos de Graville-Sainte-Honorine
La sculpture à Lonlay-l'Abbaye et dans ses prieurés
Le décor sculpté de Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville
La sculpture du XIe siècle à Jumièges
La sculpture dans la Normandie méridionale: à propos d'Autgeuil et de Lonlay-l'Abbaye
Interlace Patterns in Norman Romanesque Sculpture
Les chapiteaux de Stogursey (Somerset), ancien prieuré de Lonlay-l'abbaye
Les ateliers de sculpture dans le Cotentin (1100-1150)
Chapiteaux de Saint-Thomas d'Argentan
Les ateliers de sculpture de Saint-Etienne de Caen (1066-1120)
La sculpture préromane en Normandie
Réminiscences Scandinaves dans la sculpture romane de Normandie
Frises et dalles sculptées en Normandie
Vestiges romans de Saint-Gervais de Rouen
L'Adoration des Mages de Saint-Paul de Rouen
Saint-Symphorien de Domfront
Sculpture et polychromie dans l'art roman de Normandie
Place de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) dans le cheminement des formes au XIe siècle
Les sculptures de la rotonde de Dijon
La tradition ornementale dans la sculpture romane
La sculpture du XIIe siècle à Bayeux
Le décor végétal du XIIe siècle en Normandie
Architecture: Les monuments juifs de Rouen et l'architecture romane
L'influence des italiens dans l'art roman de Normandie: légende ou réalité?
Relations entre massif de façade et vaisseau de nef en Normandie avant 1080
Norman Architecture around the Year 1000
La brique dans l'architecture préromane et romane
Structures murales et voûtements dans l'architecture romane de Normandie
Les représentations de l'architecture dans les manuscrits
Ancienne abbatiale Notre-Dame de Bemay
Saint-Symphorien de Ponthion
Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher
Saint-Pierre d'Yzeure
Bibliographie de l'auteur
Notes complémentaires
Index
