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DARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRPRY . länUCr 31111002578894 Max Hirmer sculpture in m\cc mo-mo A B R A M S » 730524 his is the first comprehensive, fully ~ o I - 00 documented, and fully illustrated study L CO of French cathedral sculpture during - the period 1140—1270. In the introduc- " IT) tion, Dr. Sauerländer surveys the spread -" orvj "-0 of Gothic sculpture from the royal domain and its neighboring territories in central and southern France, discus- sing style, subject matter, iconography, and the historical background. His m fascinating study of the factors which led to the creation of such masterpieces as the Royal Portal at Chartres and the Coronation Portal of Notre Dame in Paris is supported by numerous photographs and illustrations which bring out the magnificence of conception and execution, as well as details ofindividual sculptures. Comparisons of related works (for example, the renderings of the Majestas, the Last Judgment, or the Ascension in various churches) provide valuable information on the diffusion and regional variations of styles, and also reveal some of the architectural problems faced by the designers of the complex portal programs. The documentation section summarizes the present state of our knowledge of each work, and gives bibliographical references. — Many of the works discussed nota- bly those in the cathedrals of Chartres — and Rheims are familiar, but many others, including those in lofty and inaccessible positions, are hardly known to the public, and have been specially photographed for this book. Works which have been damaged or destroyed in modern times are reproduced from contemporary engravings, and are in- cluded in the documentation section for comparison with the extant sculptures illustrated in the plates. Dr. Sauerländer is Director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and an international authority on Gothic sculpture. 'Oj illustrations t tiding 4 hand-mounted •dl color [. /f^. CIVIC CEKTER DATE DUE .SEP 3 o 19Q7 "Of iaU < 5^ 8 1993 ige 3 ü«i l i j, iL^JALil^. MAY 3 2000 q Sauerländer, Willibald. 730.944byGoMtahxicHs.cnunleptru;re in France 1140-1270; P holographs Sondheimer. N. Yt.ranHs.lNa.teAdbr(afrmosm [tchel9G7e2]rman bv Janet , Jl'7 p. chiefly illus. (some col.) ump. 32 cm. Index, flß.oo B 72-230ÖU Col. Illus. tipped Sin ^ B[büÄv°fpG Skul^Ur 'n Frank-lc". »«««O. MARJN COUNTY LIBRARY 1. Sculpture. Gotluc-Frauce. 2. Sculpture. Freuch. I Title NB543.S31413 7M3O0'.q94u4 *7*6-1.*60223 ISBNo-500-16017-1 LW4/73 MA"C Library of Congress ?2 ,|-4*i Digitized by the Internet Archive 2011 in http://www.archive.org/details/gothicsculptureiOOsaue GOTHIC SCULPTURE FRANCE IN 1140-1270 WILLIBALD SAUERLÄNDER Translated by Janet Sondheimer GOTHIC SCULPTURE FRANCE IN 1140-1270 MAX HIRMER photographs by HARRY ABRAMS, PUBLISHERS N. INC., NEW YORK Translated from the German Gotische Skulptur in Frankreich 1140-1270 © 1970 Hirmer Verlag, Munich English translation (Q 1972 Thames and Hudson Ltd., London Standard Book Number: 8109-0147-1 Library ofCongress Catalogue Card Number: 76-160223 All rights reserved. No part ofthe contents ofthis book may be reproduced without the permission of the publishers Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York Text filmset in Great Britain by Filmtype Services Limited, Scarborough Printed in the Netherlands by A. W. SijthoffN.V., Leyden Plates printed in West Germany by Kastner & Callwey, Munich Bound in the Netherlands by Van Rijmenam N.V., The Hague CONTENTS PREFACE 7 INTRODUCTION 11 OPUS FRANCIGENUM 11 CATEGORIES AND FUNCTIONS 13 Figure-decorated portals Sculptures on the exterior Figures in the interior Cloister sculptures Sepulchral and other commemorative monuments THE SCULPTORS AND THEIR METHODS 24 SUBJECT MATTER 27 Apocalypse and Last Judgment The Virgin Mary Old Testament typology Saints METHODS OF REPRESENTATION 42 Introduction The Royal Portals of Chartres and Saint-Denis, and associated works Senlis and the last two decades of the twelfth century Retrospective tendencies in sculpture in the thirteenth century The new figure style from the Coronation portal of Notre Dame, Paris, : to the royal statues of Rheims cathedral The style of the figure of Joseph on the west facade at Rheims The diffusion of gothic sculpture THE PLATES 63 DOCUMENTATION 377 MAP OF FRANCE 513 SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS 514 BIBLIOGRAPHY 515 INDEX 523