Description the album or more correctly, portfolio, as carl f. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or sketchbook containing about 250 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects. Although his contemporary reputation was such that he was invited to hungary, little is actually known of his responsibilities or role in the construction of specific churches. Contained in this volume are the entire contents of his portfolio, complete with authoritative translations of the artists. The first of these was that the villard portfolio was a bauhiittenbuch, a shop manual from a northern france building lodge 2. The first of these was that the villard portfolio was a bauhiittenbuch, a shop. Villard s lions medieval man of mystery one of the rarest and most famous gothic survivals carl f. Barnes has argued can be classified as a model book and the authority on medieval model books is the dutch scholar robert w.
The book is made up of sketches and writings concerning architectural practices current during the th century. Lart et les techniques dun constructeur gothique, commentary by. An illustrated prayer manual attributed to peter the chanter d. The portfolio was originally entirely devoted to sketches, but then also became an actual manual with written descriptions devoted to technical procedures. Sixteen papers and a tribute to gimpel underscore this confluence of technology, science and art within medieval culture. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. Studies in medieval technology, science and art in. On it the artist has proudly inscribed note well that this was drawn from life. Below is an extract from his descritpion of the portfolio. Villard, who contributed to designs found in churches and cathedrals dating from what we now call the gothic era his. The thirtythree leaves are reproduced at actual size from highquality color transparencies to ensure the best possible color reproduction of the drawings. The portfolio contains numerous drawings of a wide range of subjects. Because of this simplification of the supports, he has merged tracery. Villards pro fessional interest in such things as carpentry joining led to curiosity about.