Reading the Reverse Fa?e of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and by DonnaL. Sadler

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By DonnaL. Sadler

although lengthy famous as the most appealing works from the second one 1/2 the 13th century, the extraordinary sculptural application of the opposite fa?e at Reims Cathedral has bought little within the means of scholarly realization. analyzing the iconography within the mild of Latin texts linked to the development, its background and its ceremonial use, Donna Sadler assesses the importance of the opposite fa?e in gentle of alternative thirteenth-century visible courses linked to the court docket of Louis IX. The book's chapters care for the background of the cathedral and its architectural antecedents; the iconographic message of the visible application, the that means of the opposite fa?e and the way it intersects with the general iconography; the functionality of the verso and the way it truly is more suitable by way of the wedding of shape and content material; and a attention of latest works associated with the court docket of Saint Louis, concluding with a short examine the hot roles sculpture assumes because it migrates within cathedrals. eventually this publication finds how the imagery at the opposite fa?e not just conforms to a process of reminiscence and mode of medieval narratology, but additionally articulates a dominant ideological place concerning the interdependence of ecclesiastical and royal powers.

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