{"id":1819,"date":"2022-07-23T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2022-07-23T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T11:27:13","slug":"comparing-original-carvings-at-westminster-with-illustrations-in-pugins-gothic-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/23\/comparing-original-carvings-at-westminster-with-illustrations-in-pugins-gothic-ornament\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Original Carvings at Westminster with Illustrations in Pugin’s Gothic Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This past week, I was in London, visiting my brother, while on my way to Italy for continuing sculpture education. For fun, I made a trip to Westminster Abbey, not to visit all the famous tombs, but to geek out about carving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a famous book called Pugin’s Gothic Ornament<\/a> that was compiled in the early 1800’s and consists of a series of hand-drawn illustrations of carvings from various medieval churches in northern Europe. The book was influential in bringing about the neo-gothic movement in architecture, and it remains a resource for traditional carvers today. I have used the images in this book as a tool for learning ornamental carving, and every carving studio I have visited has a copy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I decided to take a trip to Westminster and to see if I could find the original carvings from which the illustrations were drawn. Here are the four pages from Pugin’s Gothic Ornament that contain illustrations from Westminster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do not think that I was successful in locating the exact carvings from which the illustrations were draw, but I did find some similar carvings and some just plain interesting carvings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These two following are of similar design but in a different layout. Leaves and Grapes and Leaves and Acorns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This following image shows different designs but in a similar layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, below is not quite the same design, but similar motif of a single leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are a few pictures of things that are just plain fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some beasties…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A crazy ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some neat capitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cool ornament at a vault crossing with a dragon-eating-his-tail motif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, lastly, here are some of the larger contexts for the details that I posted at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, then, I walked outside and saw these leaves on the ground with their curviness, and I can totally see how the ancient carvers were inspired by their exaggerated undulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This past week, I was in London, visiting my brother, while on my way to Italy for continuing sculpture education. For fun, I made a trip to Westminster Abbey, not to visit all the famous tombs, but to geek out about carving. There is a famous book called Pugin’s Gothic Ornament that was compiled in the early 1800’s and consists… Continue reading “Comparing Original Carvings at Westminster with Illustrations in Pugin’s Gothic Ornament”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}