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Medieval Construction COMMONWEALTH of AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 ABPL 90085 CULTURE OF BUILDING medieval construction COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 Warning This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of the University of Melbourne pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. do not remove this notice the medieval mason masons replacing a column drum, from a medieval manuscript John Fitchen, The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals (Oxford 1961), pl 1 construction of a church from a C15th ms of the life of Girart de Roussillon & Berthe Christine Flon [ed], The World Atlas of Archaeology (London 1985), p 129 tower of Laon Cathedral, c 1190, from the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt Erlande-Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 84 modern view Fine Arts, Melbourne University Tower of Laon Cathedral, c 1190, from the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt Erlande-Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 84 Strasbourg Cathedral, 1179 (choir & transepts), 1230-1365 (nave and west front) project for the façade, c 1260 & detail drawing of west front, c 1360-5 Erlande-Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, pp 76, 70 Notre-Dame-du-Port, Clermont-Ferrand engraving of building elements, on the south terrace floor above the choir, late C13th Robert Mark, Architectural Technology (Cambridge [Massachusetts] 1993), p 3 Gothic construction, schematic diagram J H Acland, Medieval Structure: the Gothic Vault (Toronto 1972), p 159 wooden scaffolding, in the construction of a tower, C13th Erlande- Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 28 putlog scaffolding John Fitchen, Building Construction before Mechanization (Cambridge [Massachusetts] 1986), p 86 mason's labourers, C13th MUAS 2,759 visit of King Offa of Mercia to the works at St Albans, from Matthew Paris, Life of St Alban, c 1250 Thierry Hatot, Batisseurs au Moyen Age (Clermont-Ferrand 1999), p 56 rotating hoist plumb bob & level platform on putlocks drawing by G Binding, from a bible, beginning of the 13th century. John Rylands Library, Manchester, Ms. Fr5, fol 6. Rolf Toman [ed], Romanesque Architecture Sculpture Painting (H.F. Ullmann, Potsdam 2010 [2004]), p 16 foundation of an abbey Alain Erlande-Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages (London 1995 [1993]), p 11 construction of the Tower of Babel, from Rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik Erlande- Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 100 a great wheel, from the sarcophagus of the Haterii family. Rome, late AD C1st. Durm, Baukunst der Römer, p 365; in Fitchen, Building Construction, p 96 scene from Schilling, 'The Bern Chronicle', 1484-5, showing a treadmill crane loading stone on a barge Erlande- Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 111 treadmill, reconstruction drawing Hatot, Batisseurs au Moyen Age, p 70 surviving treadmill, from the base of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral Erlande-Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 123 reconstruction of Troy, from a C15th manuscript by Jean de Colombe; building under construction, C15th Erlande-Brandenberg, The Cathedral Builders, p 123; René Alleau, History of the Great Building Constructions, p 65. Romanesque vaulting St.-Savin-sur- Gartempe, France, 1075 onwards MUAS 9894 scaffolding [centering] for a barrel vault John Fitchen, The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals (Oxford 1961), p 3 stone-weighted rope device Fitchen, Construction of Gothic Cathedrals, p 182 system of groin vault centering where the formwork is continuous longitudinally Fitchen, Construction of Gothic Cathedrals, p 52 Qasr Amra, Jordan, c AD 711: hall roof with three parallel barrel vaults Henri Stierlin, Islam Volume I: Early Achitecture from Baghdad to Cordoba (Taschen, Köln 1996), p 72 St-Philibert, Tournus plan & section Gustav Künstler, Romanesque Art in Europe (London 1969), p 25 St-Philibert, Tournus nave François Souchal, Art of the Early Middle Ages (New York 1968), pl 74 St-Philibert, Tournus: diagram Conant, Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, p 81 St-Philibert, Tournus: vaulting diagram Cecil Stewart, Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture (London 1954), p 146 Speyer Cathedral: reconstruction of the original nave of c 1030-1061, and modern view Lehmann, Der Fruhe Deutsche Kirchenbau, pl 17, fig 37 Souchal, Art of the Early Middle Ages (New York 1968), p 101 Intersecting & domical vaults Stewart, Early Christian &c Architecture, p 143 St-Étienne, Abbaye-aux- Hommes, 1067-81 and 1115 sexpartite vaulting diagram Pugin & Le Keux, Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, p,l iv; Stewart, Early Christian, &c, p 145 sexpartite vault apparently from the Tour de la Garde Robe, Palais des Papes, Avignon, now in the Cité de l'Architecture, Paris Miles Lewis pseudo-sexpartite and sexpartite vaulting Stewart, Early Christian, &c, p 145 diaphragm wall arch Ste-Trinité, Abbaye-aux-Dames, Caen, begun 1062: nave Sacred Destinations, © Allie Caulfield Ste-Trinité, Abbaye-aux- Dames, Caen, begun 1062 nave interior & detail Conant, Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, pl 165 Gustav Künstler, Romanesque Art in Europe (London 1969) pl 70 intersecting, domed-up & stilted vaults Stewart, Early Christian &c Architecture, pp 143, 144 vaulting over square and oblong bays, using stilted arches Cecil Stewart, Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture (London 1954), p 144 Gothic vaulting Durham Cathedral, 1093-1138 &c, north choir aisle vaulting Miles Lewis using the pointed form three arches (the wall, the transverse and the diagonal) can start from the same base and reach the same height without stilting pointed vault & scaffolding Acland, The Gothic Vault, p 82 Durham Cathedral nave Scala 8426, © 1972 Durham, detail of nave vault MUAS 15,215 quadripartite and sexpartite vaults Cichy, Great Ages of Architecture, p 429 intersecting pointed vaults Diapofilm 5433 JH-1 Chartres: detail of nave vaulting, C13th Éditions Houvet, 59 transverse rib diagonal rib wall rib Chartres: detail of nave vaulting, C13th Éditions Houvet, 59 no ridge rib Chartres: detail of nave vaulting, C13th Éditions Houvet, 59 pointed ribbed vaults: French and English methods Stewart, Gothic Architecture, p 37 Salamanca old cathedral, 1120-78: nave Rolf Toman [ed], Romanesque Architecture Sculpture Painting (H.F. Ullmann, Potsdam 2010 [2004]), p 204 English vaulting the ridge rib the tierceron the lierne the stellar vault the fan vault quadripartite vaults with ridge ribs: left, on a square bay; right, on an oblong bay Stewart, Gothic Architecture, p 38 reflected plans of the nave vaults of Chartres Cathedral, begun c 1194, and Lincoln Cathedral, begun 1192 Pevsner, Outline of European Architecture, p 105 tierceron vault Stewart, Gothic Architecture, p 40 Exeter Cathedral nave http://www.sacred- destinations.com/englan d/exeter-cathedral- pictures/h-5381.JPG Exeter nave vault: detail Rickitt Encyclopedia 18,035 Salisbury, Chapter House, interior view & engraving by Buckler http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/salisbury-cathedral-pictures/eos2_048.jpg Whittingham, Salisbury Chapter House, fig 1 Salisbury Chapter House: vault http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/salisbury-cathedral-pictures/eos2_043.jpg two lierne vaults: Tewkesbury Abbey, c 1120, nave vault after 1321; Bristol Cathedral choir, rebuilt 1311-1340 MUAS 15,226; Elfincolor 338A1 a lierne vault Stewart, Gothic Architecture, p 42 Norwich Cathedral, 1175- 8 with C15th vaulting view of nave Miles Lewis Norwich: view of vault, C15th Miles Lewis Norwich: detail of vault, C15th MUAS 5,021 Winchester Cathedral, view of Norman nave & choir, 1079-93: nave vault by William Wynford, c 1450 Walton Colour, Winchester no 15 Winchester stellar vault Acland, The Gothic Vault, p 129 King's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1446-1515: begun by Reginald Ely, fan vault by John Wastell Jarrold a fan vault Cichy, Great Ages of Architecture, p 429 fan vault on a square bay Stewart, Gothic Architecture, p 44 fan vault on a rectangular bay Stewart, Gothic Architecture, p 45 Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, choir vault, after 1446 diagram showing use of carved stones plus rib and panel, forming fan conoids with lierne ribs Acland, The Gothic Vault, p 159 Chapel Royal, Hampton Court ceiling of 1535-6 J H Plumb, Royal Heritage (London 1977), p 67 Continental late Gothic Salamanca nave vault, by Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, J C Palacios, 'The Gothic Ribbed Vault in Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón', in Malcolm Dunkeld et al [eds], Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History (3 vols, Cambridge 2006), III, p 2418 Segovia Cathedral sacristy vault, by Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, late 16th century, reconstruction Salamanca Cathedral, ambulatory of the chapel of Santo Cristo de las Batalhas, vault, by Juan de Ribero Rada, 1525-1600 Palacios, 'The Gothic Ribbed Vault’, pp 2425, 2423 St Vitus, Prague nave Miles Lewis St Vitus, vault of the south portal, c 1367 MUAS 15,251 St Barbara, Kutna Hora, Bohemia [Czech Republic], 1481-1548 nave vault History of Western Art, 15/4 Vladislav Hall or Hall of Homage in the Royal Palace (Kralovsily Palac), Hradcany Castle, Prague, by Benedikt Ried, 1493- 1503 unbranded commercial slide 'Prazsky hrad Vladislavsky sal' cellular or folded vaulting Albrechtsburg Castle, Meissen, Germany view; vault by Arnold of Westphalia, c 1475-80 http://www.albrechtsburg.de/12.98.html?&L=1 Acland, The Gothic Vault, p 202 Bishop's Castle at Meissen, Germany, ribless cellular vault with
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