Urnes Church door with two jambs and a pillar [plaster cast]
after unknown (Norse sculptor); unknown (Norwegian cast maker)
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Alternative Title
Reproduction of a door from Urnes Church
Date
1900-1907Description
Overall view; The original is carved in wood and was created ca. 1050-1070. It is from the north side of the church. The carvings from the stave church at Urnes, Norway have given rise to the name of a style that developed beginning in the second quarter of the 11th century in Scandinavia and Scandinavian settlements in Ireland and England. The style is characterized by the use of transformed Ringerike-style motifs and new elements. Compositions are more unified than Ringerike, and typically include extremely stylized animals, with larger animals displaying a distinctive swelling and tapering of the body. Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/ (accessed 5/10/2009)
Type of Work
door; doorframe; replicaSubject
abstraction or non-objective, animals, architectural exteriors, decorative arts, vining, intertwining, stylized animal forms, Viking, Urnes-Romanesque, Scandinavian, interlacing, Urnes Style, Norse (ancient), Medieval, Twentieth century
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