Foliage

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Bamberg Cathedral (interior), foliage as the base of the Bamberg rider
Naumburg Cathedral (interior), foliage on a capital

As foliage , also foliage , ( French: feuillage , Italian: fogliami ) is any ornament made from leaves in the fine arts .

Occurrence

In all stylistic epochs, foliage is more or less stylized or depicted close to nature. The foliage is a typical appearance of the Gothic forms of jewelry, which were cut into stone as leaves or as buds , carved in wood, designed or painted by art blacksmiths on the anvil . Foliage ornaments can be found on the tops of towers, on gables as gable flowers and as pegs , eyelashes , arches and keystones of Gothic buildings. Gothic finial and the crab are also included. Initially, strict foliage forms are worked out in the Gothic, which appear as rampant leaf forms with the development of the Gothic. Above all, native leaf motifs are used. The stone motifs are carved by stonemasons , who in the Gothic era were also called leaf- makers or leaf-blowers .

The most important and artistically valuable foliage of the Gothic is the stone base of the Bamberg Rider in the Bamberg Cathedral . On the right console stone of this base is the most famous sheet mask in Germany . In art-historical literature, the foliage on the west of the Naumburg Cathedral is recognized as an artistic highlight of the early Gothic stonemasonry.

In the 15th century, the title “Laubwerk” also bore instructions for the design of illuminations with tendrils.

See also

literature

  • Ludger Alscher , Günter Feist, Peter H. Feist (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Art. Architecture, fine arts, applied arts, industrial design, art theory . Volume I, Verlag Das Europäische Buch, West Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88436-107-4 (978-3-88436-107-8), p. 304.
  • Günter Donath, Frank Richter: Gardens made of stone. The flora of the Naumburg master . Michael-Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0315-4 , p. 272 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Möbius and Helga Möbius .: Ecclesia ornata. Ornament on medieval church building. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  2. ↑ Doris Oltrogge, Solange Michon and Robert Fuchs: Laubwerk - To the text tradition of a manual for illuminators from the 15th century. In: Würzburger medical history reports 7, 1989, pp. 179–213.