Edson Armi teaches art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Edson Armi teaches art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hardcover: 204 pages.

Cluny III (Church), Art, Cluniac - France - Cluny, Art, French - France - Cluny, Art, Romanesque - France - Cluny. University Park ; London : Pennsylvania State University Press. Books for People with Print Disabilities.

Start by marking Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: The .

Start by marking Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: The New Aesthetic of Cluny III as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. In a sweeping revision of that position, this book argues that Cluny Ill is "the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design," and further maintains that the artisans responsible for the masonry of Cluny Ill also created its sculpture.

Professor Armi reaches these conclusions through a painstaking analysis of archaeological evidence, such as masons' marks, and a careful "hand analysis" of the site's sculpture, allowing observation of both individual and general design changes, turning points, and stylistic trends. As a result of his investigation of the major Burgundian structures of the period Cluny, Vézelay, Paray-le-Monial, Anzy-le-Duc, Perrecy-les-Forges, et. the author has established a new chronology for the architecture of the region

C. Edson Armi is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara

C. Edson Armi is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The "Headmaster" of Chartres and the Origins of "Gothic" Sculpture (1994) and The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities (1988), both published by Penn State.

Professor Armi reaches these conclusions through a painstaking analysis o. .

In a sweeping revision of that position, this book argues that Cluny Ill is "the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design," and further maintains that the artisans responsible for the masonry of Cluny Ill also created its sculpture.

Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy : The New Aesthetic of Cluny III. by C. Edson Armi. For nearly a century, archaeologists and art historians studying the great third abbey at Cluny (Cluny III) have "agreed on a set of abstract principles, including its spontaneous generation or revolutionary character, and posited an overseeing genius who selected from non-local sources.

Author: C. For nearly a century, archaeologists and art historians studying the great third abbey at Cluny (Cluny III) have ‘agreed on a set of abstract principles, including its spontaneous generation or revolutionary character, and posited an overseeing genius who selected from non-local sources.

Plan of Cluny Abbey, with portal and pre-nave and two towers, on the west . The new church was 187 meters long, and designed to accommodate two hundred and fifty monks.

Plan of Cluny Abbey, with portal and pre-nave and two towers, on the west, two transepts with towers, and an apse with radiating chapels on the east. Plan of Saint-Front de Périgueux, a cruciform with five cupolas, modeled after St Mark's Basilica in Venice. It also appeared in Burgundy and in an experimental version at the Abbey of Vezelay at about the same time. These vaults allowed ceilings that were lighter and stronger, and carried the weight outwards to columns and buttresses, so the supporting walls could be higher and thinner, with larger windows.