An Addition to the Documentation on the Façade of the Chapterhouse at La Daurade in Toulouse
1977; College Art Association; Volume: 59; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1977.10787485
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
ResumoIn The Art Bulletin of 1973 Linda Seidel presented a study of the façade of the twelfth-century chapterhouse at La Daurade in Toulouse in which the chief questions she raised concerned the nature of the openings in the façade and the disposition of its sculptural decoration.1 Sometime during or after 1811 the chapterhouse was destroyed, and the column-statues, bas-reliefs, and capitals that formed its decoration entered the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse.2 Seidel's article centered on the relative credibility of two differing descriptions of the original arrangement of the surviving sculptures, both written by Alexandre Du Mège, the nineteenth-century Toulousain antiquarian who was principally responsible for the acquisition of the sculptures and their installation in the museum. Du Mège claimed to have seen the cloister and chapterhouse of La Daurade while they were still standing,3 although the earlier of his two descriptions of these structures seems not to have been written until nearly a decade after their demolition.4
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