The Corpus of Medieval Narrative Art

 

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This Website is a repository for photographs of medieval art. Since my current research interest is in visual narratology, the emphasis here is very much on narrative art, particularly in stained glass and portal sculpture. Currently it is only possible to view the images by browsing the links given above. In due course I will augment this with thematic/iconographic searches as well. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me at;

       

All images on this site are © Stuart Whatling unless otherwise indicated but I freely grant license for anybody to use these images for any legitimate academic purpose. Let me know if you need higher-resolution images for publication. Commercial usage is strictly prohibited.

Please note also that this website is purely a personal project and is not in any way associated with, supported by, or endorsed by any institute of art with which I am otherwise associated.
Nor, despite the similarity in web address is it in any way associated with the International Centre for Medieval Art (ICMA) in New York - if you got here by mistake whilst looking for them, please go to; www.medievalart.org

Poitiers choir stalls, spandrel 20 - an architect with his tools
Bourges Cathedral, Bay 06 (The Passion) Panel 11 - the Last Supper
Chartres Cathedral, Bay 08, panel 07 - the Prefect Tarquinus chokes on a fish-bone Rouen Cathedral, North Transept Portal, Quatrefoil 09:04 (monster with the lower half of a cockatrice and the upper half of a doctor examining a urine flask)

Update History;

Recent Changes:

18/04/10 - Uploaded Chartres bay 48 (St John the Evangelist - all yours Jeremy!)
09/04/10 - Uploaded Chartres bay 116 (clerestory window with St Denis handing over the Oriflamme) and 29a (St Germain d'Auxerre)
01/04/10 - Having finally finished my PhD I can now resume work on this...
15/01/10 - Uploaded the remaining 78 Portail des Libraires quatrefoils (right of doorway)
14/01/10 - Uploaded first batch of 82 pics of Rouen Cathedral's north transept portal (Portail des Libraires) - all the quatrefoils to left of doorway
07/01/10 - Uploaded the Bourges west facade Genesis cycle
18/12/09 - Uploaded Chartres bay 47 (Noah)
04/12/09 - The uploading of the four early 13th century windows in the north aisle of the choir at Sens now complete
20/11/09 - Uploaded the remaining 24 quatrefoils from the Amiens west facade
17/11/09 - For a bit of variety... some sculpture. Uploaded the Amiens Cathedral west facade prophet cycle, virtues/vices and zodiac/labours quatrefoils (94 pages)
13/11/09 - Uploaded Chartres bay 44 (The Good Samaritan/Genesis typological window)
05/11/09 - Uploaded the first of the windows at Tours Cathedral - the Genesis window
04/11/09 - Apologies for the hiatus but I've got about 80k words to write by March as well as 3 lectures and 2 conferences to organise, so everything else is on hold...
08/09/09 - Uploaded Chartres bay 01 ( The Lives of St Simon and St Jude)
02/09/09 - Uploaded Chartres bay 0 (Lives of the Apostles)
01/09/09 - Uploaded Chartres bay 21 (Life of St Julien the Hospitaller)
08/08/09 - Uploaded Chartes bay 07 (Legends of Charlemagne) .
11/05/09 - Uploaded Chartres bay 115 (St Eustace/infancy clerestory window).
21/03/09 - Replaced the photos for Poitiers bays 111a + b with much better ones from the latest trip.
19/03/09 - Uploaded first of the new batch of windows - Chartres clerestory bay 142 (St Mary of Egypt and St Laumer).
09/03/09-17/03/09 - Rather frenetic week in France photographing further windows at Chartres, Tours, Angers, Le Mans, Poitiers, Auxerres & Sens. Will try to get the resulting 4525 photos sorted, post-processed, indexed, researched and uploaded over the course of this summer.
29/02/09 - Uploaded Chartres Bay 28b (Life of the Virgin) plus clerestory bays 105 and 109.
25/02/09 - Chartres bays 41 (Joseph) uploaded - another nice sharp set of images. Also the first of the Clerestory windows - Bay 103 with the amazin Seraph image.
23/02/09 - In response to feedback, am changing the Bourges pages et alia so that links always open in the same window.
23/02/09 - Chartres bays 18 (St Thomas Becket) and 23 (Thomas the Apostle in India) uploaded - the latter has some of my best quality glass photos to date.
18/02/09 - Chartres bay 17 (Saints Savinien and Potentien) uploaded
27/01/09 - Poitiers bays 100, 111a, 111b and 120 uploaded.
21/01/09 - need to get my 2006 pics of the Poitiers windows sorted for the PhD so might as well stick them up here too...
15/12/08 - finished uploading pics from the 2007 Harvard/Courtauld Grad student trip to Saxony
03/11/08 - decided to start using ICONCLASS notations to classify narrative episodes - may take a while to show up though!
22/10/08 - uploaded Chartres bay 43 (St Eustace) and bay 15 (St Cheron)
10/10/08 - uploaded Chartres bay 14 (The life and posthumous miracles of St Nicholas)
08/10/08 - uploaded Chartres bay 13 (The life and relics of St Stephen)
02/10/08 - uploaded Chartres bay 11 (St Pantaleon) - quite a confusing narrative sequence so will revisit this one soon!
28/09/08 - started the Chartres pages & uploaded bay 08 (St Sylvester)
26/09/08 - le Mans clerestory windows uploaded
17/09/08 - Added le Mans bays 104, 106 & 108 - thereby completing the initial load of the triforium windows. (At last!)
15/09/08 - Added le Mans bay 100 and 101
12/09/08 - Added le Mans bay 102 (Life of St Eustace)
01/09/08 - Added the Poitiers choir-stall carvings (Images only - commentary text to come later)
24/08/08 - Added bare bones of the 'Le Mans upper windows' section
20/08/08 - Site created. Migrated the Bourges section from www.flat3.co.uk to here and created new home page (this one).