1986/01/01 by Lawrence Nees · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · #Historical and Religious Studies of Rome #Medieval European History and Architecture #French horn #Plan (archaeology) #Gall #History #Product (mathematics) #Art history #Art #Classics #Sociology #Archaeology #Mathematics #Biology
paper · doi:10.2307/766891
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The monumental publication of the Plan of St. Gall by Walter Horn and Ernest Born proposes that the surviving Plan depends upon a lost paradigmatic and authoritative exemplar preserved at the imperial court. Drawing upon recent research prompted by Horn's publication, while also indicating some problems with the paradigmatic theory as put forth by Horn not previously noted, the theory is here rejected as it is applied specifically to the Plan of St. Gall. In a broader sense, the historiographic tradition associated with Horn's theory is very briefly reviewed, and the common view that in general terms early Carolingian art may be understood as the product of an official court program is questioned.