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Matthew Paris and Villard de Honnecourt
- Title:
- Matthew Paris and Villard de Honnecourt
- Author:
- Kurth, B.
- Notes:
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- CCCC MS 16i & CCCC MS 16ii Discussion of similar interests (e.g. in objects from classical antiquity, exotic animals etc.) of Villard de Honnecourt and Matthew Paris in CCCC MS 16. Also they use very similar pictorial compositions as in the case of Villard’s Superbia (a man falling from a horse) and Matthew’s Engelram of Coucy falling from his horse. Also compares the men wrestling on St James’s day in 1222 in the Chronica Maiora with Villard’s wrestlers, pp. 227-8
- CCCC MS 26 Notes the closeness of composition in the iconography of two men wrestling and a man falling from his horse (Superbia or Engelram of Coucy) in the drawings of Villard de Honnecourt and Matthew Paris, pp. 224, 227-8
- Volume:
- 81
- Pages:
- 227–28
- Reference Type:
- Journal article
- Manuscript:
- qt808nj0703