Grout painting
Under joints painting refers to a portion of the illusionary painting, wherein the regular masonry by respective paintings on plaster is imitated. Wall joints suggested by the structure of the plaster are referred to as joint cuts .
history
Joint painting already existed in ancient Greece and Rome. In the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the Baroque and even in the historicizing architecture of the 19th century, joint paintings predominantly occur in the interior of churches, castles or palaces and town houses. Sometimes whole walls or parts of walls were painted accordingly; Joint paintings are also often found on pillars, arches, etc., where they optically simulate solid masonry and thus the durability of arches. Many joint paintings were destroyed by natural influences (water and frost damage), but also due to the advance of a romanticizing stone-eyed architecture in the art theory of the 19th century.
Function and symbolism
Plaster and grout paintings hide the unsightly chaos of walls made of uncut stones and instead suggest regularity, order, stability and thus durability - things that were of great importance for faith as a whole, but especially for popular religion.
Église Saint-André in Taxat , Auvergne
literature
- Werner Bornheim called Schilling : Grout painting in the Middle Ages. In: German art and monument preservation. 1961, pp. 5-21.