Polychrome sculpture : meaning, form, conservation / Johannes Taubert ; edited with an introduction by Michele D. Marincola ; translated from the German by Carola Schulman.
Publisher:
Getty Conservation Institute,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xiv, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 212-215) and index.
Contents:
On technical results and problems of restoration -- E. Oellermann -- Editor's introduction / Michele D. Marincola -- Note to the reader -- Foreward / Paul Philippot -- Part 2 Art historical questions -- Introduction: plastic form and color -- The polychromy of Romanesque sculptures -- Relics and repositories for relics in sculptures -- On the artistic unity of form and color in sculpture (Gothic sculptures) -- Medieval crucifixes with movable arms: a contribution to the question of the liturgical use of sculpture -- On the imitation of textile structures in Late Gothic polychromy and panel painting / E. Oellermann -- The Annunciation of the Rosary by Veit Stoß in Nuremberg -- On the surface and finish of so-called unpainted Late Gothic wooden sculpture -- On the surface and finish of the Castulus Reliefs by Hans Leinberger -- The polychromy of Rococo sculptures in Southern Germany -- Part 2 On technical results and problems of restoration -- On the form of the Herlin Altarpiece / On the restoration of sculptures -- On the restoration of the Forstenried Crucifix / J. Taubert and K.-W. Bachmann -- The restoration of Late Gothic altarpiece shrines: an art historical problem -- Friedrich Herlin's Nördlingen Altarpiece of 1462 -- Report of findings -- Description of the polychromy of the sculptures, the restoration, and the retouching / F. Buchenrieder -- On the woodworking of the sculptures and on the construction and polychromy of the shrine housing of the Nördlingen Altarpiece / K.-W. Bachmann -- The Baroque altarpiece after restoration -- Friedrich Herlin's Rothenburg Altarpiece and its restoration -- Description, history, and restoration of the altarpiece -- The construction and genesis of the altarpiece / K.-W. Bachmann -- The polychromy of the altarpiece / E. Oellermann -- On the form of the Herlin Altarpiece / J. Taubert and K.-W. Bachmann -- On the restoration of the Crucifix by Ignaz Günther in Altmannstein.
Summary:
"A translation into English of an important work, originally published in German in the 1970s, on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. It combines scientific analysis of materials with an art-historical appreciation of form and function, an approach that has led to the development of technical art history as practiced today"--Provided by publisher.
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