2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Sculptures of the West Portal of Cluny III and the Moutiers-Saint-Jean Workshop
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15520076
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Aesthetics/Art history
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
TOKITA Masuyo HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CENTER, PROFESSOR, 留学生センター, 教授 (80291847)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Romanesque sculpture / Cluny / Moutiers-Saint-Jean / narrative capital / foliate capital / Benedictine Monastery / Romanesque architecture |
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| Research Abstract |
Both Cluny (Saone-et-Loire), the most powerful mother monastery of the Cluniac Order, and Moutiers-Saint-Jean (Cote-d'Or), one of the daughter monasteries of Cluny, were destroyed after the French Revolution. Today their extant Romanesque sculptures are housed in various museums in France and U.S.A. The purposes of this study are 1)to examine the sculptural styles of the narrative and foliate capitals from Moutiers-Saint-Jean, now in the Fogg Museum (Harvard University), the Louvre Museum, and the Archeological Museum of Dijon, and 2)to compare the Moutiers capitals with capitals in the Ochier and Farinier Museums as well as with the many sculptural fragments from the west portal of Cluny III that were excavated from Pit II and Pit X by K.J.Conant. Careful stylistic and technical observation leads one to the conclusion that some of the sculptors of Moutiers were also responsible for the west portal sculptures of Cluny III, and that, on the basis of the Moutiers' date of 1125-1130, the west portal of Cluny III could have been constructed slightly later than the widely accepted date of 1115.
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