From Naumburg to Burgos. European Sculpture and Dynastic Politics in the Thirteenth Century
| Autor: | Henrik Karge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Hispanic Research Journal. 13:434-448 |
| ISSN: | 1745-820X 1468-2737 |
| Popis: | This article tries to nuance traditional models that infer that developments in thirteenth-century Gothic sculpture be understood exclusively as emanating from the most important French cathedral workshops. Even if there are common artistic roots in Reims cathedral, the closest parallels to the sculptures erected in the 1260s in the cloister and the western towers of the cathedral of Burgos can be detected in the founders’ statues of Naumburg and Meissen, in Germany. Thus, for example, the statues of Otto I the Great and Adelheid in Meissen served as a relatively precise imperial model for the commemorative sculptures of King Ferdinand III of Castile and Beatrice of Hohenstaufen in the cloister of Burgos. The latter’s wedding in 1219 in Burgos’ old Romanesque cathedral underpinned the imperial pretensions of their son Alfonso X the Learned, who was elected Roman (German) king in Frankfurt in 1257. It has to be assumed that in the ensuing years of German-Castilian interchange a German sculptors’ wo... |
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