The analysis of Gothic architecture : studies in memory of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon

The essays in this volume reflect on and build on the remarkable legacies of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon, who pioneered the application of high-technology research methods to the study of Gothic architecture. Combining personal reminiscences and historiographical discussions with meticulous geometrical and structural analyses based on photogrammetric and laser-scanned building surveys, this book offers valuable new perspectives not only on Mark and Tallon themselves, but also on major churches including the abbeys of Saint-Denis and Alcobaça, Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Notre-Dame in Paris, and the cathedrals of Clermont, Reims and Wells. Contributors are: Sheila Bonde, Robert Bork, Lindsay S. Cook, Michael Davis, James Hillson, Kyle Killian, Peter Kurmann, Clark Maines, Ethan Mark, Stephen Murray, Sergio Sanabria, Dany Sandron, Ellen Shortell, Elizabeth B. Smith, Rebecca Smith, Arnaud Timbert, Stefaan Van Liefferinge, and Nancy Wu. Contents 6 Figures 8 Notes on Contributors 13 1 Introduction 16 2 Robert Mark: In Memoriam 23 3 Andrew Tallon: Singing with the Cathedral 27 1 The Cathedral at the Threshold between Heaven and Earth 28 2 The New Media as a Platform for Scholarly Collaboration 29 3 The Image not Made by Human Hands 29 4 Mapping Medieval Architecture 31 5 Andrew Tallon: Singing with the Cathedral 32 4 Robert Mark’s Career: Patterns of Insight 34 5 From Stephen Murray to Andrew Tallon: Writing the History 50 1 Another View of Medieval Architecture: Stephen Murray 50 2 Meeting Andrew Tallon 58 3 Coda 62 Acknowledgements 63 6 Remembering Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon: A Roundtable Discussion 64 7 Ad Triangulum Geometries in Parisian Early Gothic 90 1 The Plan of Saint-Martin-des-Champs 91 2 The Cross-section of Saint-Martin-Champs 95 3 The Plan of the Saint-Denis Choir 98 4 The Plan of Saint-Germain-des-Prés 102 5 The Cross-section of Saint-Germain-des-Prés 105 6 The Plan of Notre-Dame 107 7 The Cross-section of Notre-Dame 110 8 The Plan of the Saint-Denis Choir 112 9 The Cross-section of Saint-Denis 113 10 Conclusion 118 8 Archaeology and Standing Structure: An Archaeological Approach 119 1 Introduction 119 2 Method of Study 124 3 The Abbey of Alcobaça 124 4 The State of Research on Construction of the Abbey of Alcobaça 129 5 A Buildings Archaeology Approach to Alcobaça 136 6 Conclusions 146 9 Between Reims and Soissons: Gothic Space and Place in a Medieval Landscape 147 1 Space and Place 149 2 Representing the Buildings 150 3 Varietas 158 10 Revisiting the Reims High Vaults 167 11 Reims Reconsidered: New Arguments for Dating the West Façade of the Cathedral 189 12 Drawing Flyers at the Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand 207 1 The Openwork Flyers 212 2 Arcs 217 3 Conclusion 225 13 Tracing the Past: A Digital Analysis of the Choir Vaults at Wells Cathedral and Ottery Saint Mary 227 1 Chronology 231 2 Digital Analysis 235 3 Plans 237 4 Curves 242 5 Attribution 251 14 “And They Stand...by Their Very Own Selves”: The Nave Vaults of Santa Maria Novella in Florence 253 15 Notre-Dame after Notre-Dame: The Workshop of the Cathedral 268 16 The Image of Notre-Dame: Architectural and Artistic Responses to the Cathedral of Paris 279 1 Architectural Responses to Notre-Dame 279 2 Artistic Responses to Notre-Dame: Architectural Portraits 291 3 Seeing and Hearing the West Towers 300 Index 303 "The essays in this volume reflect on and build on the remarkable legacies of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon, who pioneered the application of high-technology research methods to the study of Gothic architecture. Combining personal reminiscences and historiographical discussions with meticulous geometrical and structural analyses based on photogrammetric and laser-scanned building surveys, this book offers valuable new perspectives not only on Mark and Tallon themselves, but also on major churches including the abbeys of Saint-Denis and Alcobaça, Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Notre-Dame in Paris, and the cathedrals of Clermont, Reims and Wells. Contributors are: Sheila Bonde, Robert Bork, Lindsay S. Cook, Michael Davis, James Hillson, Kyle Killian, Peter Kurmann, Clark Maines, Ethan Mark, Stephen Murray, Sergio Sanabria, Dany Sandron, Ellen Shortell, Elizabeth B. Smith, Rebecca Smith, Arnaud Timbert, Stefaan Van Liefferinge, and Nancy Wu"-- Provided by publisher