Sculpture #7 - Setting

Chapter 7 - Setting


The Chartreuse de Champmol

Portal
- Claus Sluter (1340–1405-06) & workshop, 1391-1392
- Chartreuse de Champmol (Dijon, Burgundy)

L: John the Baptist, Philip the Bold (kneeling)
C (trumeau): Madonna and Child
R: wife of Philip the Bold (kneeling), Saint Catherine of Alexandria

The monastery was founded in 1383 by Duke Philip the Bold to provide a dynastic burial place for the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, and operated until it was dissolved in 1791, during the French Revolution.

The Well of Moses
- Claus Sluter (1340–1405-06) & nephew Claus de Werve
- stone, c.1395/1405
- Chartreuse de Champmol (Dijon, Burgundy)

David and Jeremiah by the Fountain of Life

Holy Blood altarpiece  
St. James (German: St. Jakob) is a historic Lutheran church in Germany

  

 Heilig-Blut-Altar / Holy Blood altarpiece  
- Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531, carver)  

- Würzburg wood, 1499-1505  

- St. Jakob / St. James's Church (Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany)  

The altar includes scenes of the entry into Jerusalem (right wing), Lord's Supper (shrine) with Judas as central figure, and the Mount of Olives (left wing).

Fontainebleau Palace (Paris)  

Villa Barbaro (Maser, Italy)  

Houghton Hall (Norfolk, England)

Palace of Versailles

 (Sculptures in) The Gardens
- L. Le Vau (from 1661) & J. Hardouin-Mansart (from 1678)
- Palace of Versailles (Paris)

Rousham Garden

Statutes of Venus & Swans
- William Kent (1685-1748, English Architect)
- Rousham House (Oxfordshire)

Source: Wikipedia

Reference: Learning to Look at Sculpture (Mary Acton)