Posts: 828 Location: Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Fri 11 Mar, 2016 10:47 am
| T. Kew wrote: |
I happened to be strolling through the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow on Monday, and turned a corner to find this rather lovely piece:
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I've popped the rest of my photos into this Dropbox album, which should hopefully be viewable - let me know if not.
It's a rather nice example of a late Kastenbrust - apparently the rear fauld is not original, but the rest of the cuirass is (it wasn't clear whether that also applies to the spaulders). |
Thanks for sharing this :) and yes it is lovely!
This plate is by the way quite close to the images of Christian I and Saint Olav from Roskilde Cathedral (page 1 in this thread).
NB: When I click on your drop box link, nothing happens (it open a new window but nothing loads).
Mark: So you think that what is most likely authentic is the breast plate itself, while the other pieces are possibly later "add on's" for completeness or sale (with marks on the accessories copying the marks on the breast-plate)?
At least for a Kastenbrust discussion that is the most important (again we can discuss whether the "fluted type" should even be called "Kastenbrust", or whether the name should be reserve exclusively for the box-like kind)
Posts: 256 Location: London, UK
Fri 11 Mar, 2016 3:01 pm
Thanks for letting me know - a few extra characters had snuck in and were causing the issue. I've edited it, and it should now work fine.
The information provided by the Kelvingrove claims that the rear fauld specifically is a later replacement, but the rest is original.
My interpretation of Mark's thoughts is that the entire set of armourer's marks may have been added later, to associate the cuirass with other pieces of armour.
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Fri 18 Mar, 2016 4:55 am
No idea where it's from sadly, though I have seen more of these wooden figures in museums around here.
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Does anyone actually know what these wooden figures are called? I've seen some cast bronze and marble ones being referred to as Pleurants but this one and the ones like it I saw do not resemble them.
Posts: 828 Location: Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Fri 18 Mar, 2016 10:11 am
| Pieter B. wrote: |
No idea where it's from sadly, though I have seen more of these wooden figures in museums around here.
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Does anyone actually know what these wooden figures are called? I've seen some cast bronze and marble ones being referred to as Pleurants but this one and the ones like it I saw do not resemble them. |
Great find - good example of a Kastenbrust.
As far as a know they are just called træfigurer (= wood figurines) or træskulpturer (= wood sculptures) in Danish (and likewise in Norwegian "Trefigurer" or Swedish "Träfigurer"), but it might be the case that certain European languages have a specific term for them?!
Latin term: "ligneolis hominum figuris" (= wooden human figures) occurs in the Latin translation "De Mundo" of the Greek "Peri Kosmos", probably by Apuleius already in the 2nd century AD.
Have not stumbled over any technical terms yet
Also the polychromatic painting of wood carved figurines seems to be a Late Gothic phenomenon.
So carvings didn't need to be super detailed compared to unpainted ones.
After the carving was finished you covered the figurines with a chalk coating and afterwards painted them in bright colours and finally gilded them.
Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15698b.htm
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