The Choir Screen of Cluny III
C. Edson Armi|Elizabeth Bradford Smith
Eighty-three sculptured fragments from the abbey of Cluny are attributed to choir screen III, constituting only large-scale low chancel closure survive Romanesque France. In type, arcaded is conceived as sculpture in scale, decoration, and construction, yet it parallels motifs, workmanship, even dimensions architectural carving 1120-30 at Vézelay, Cluny, Paray, suggests that “sculptors” fact were ashlar masons. It thus reflects period which was created when media architecture combined a new synthetic whole.
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