MisericordiaInternationalNewsletternr.23(May2019)

Dearmembers,Welcometothe23stMisericordiaInternationalnewsletter.Inthisnewsletter,youwillfindnewsoftheactivitiesofmembersaswellastheassociation.WealsoreceivedthesadmessagethatFernandoVillaseñorSebastiánpassedaway.BelowyouwillfindanInMemoriambyhiscolleagueandfriendMaríaDoloresTeijeira.Fernandowasadearcolleagueandhewillbegreatlymissed.Wewishhisfamilyandfriendsalotofstrengthwiththistragicloss.

Bestwishes,FrédéricBillietWillyPiron

Misericordwithsunflowers,ChurchofAllSaints,MaidstoneUK,ca.1400,

photobyJanetWhitham

Thisfall(20september2019--26january2020)therewillbeanexhibitiononJanBromanandhisworkshopinM–MuseumLeuven,Belgium;BormanandSons.JanIIBorman(ca.1479-1520)wasasculptorformBrusselswhocamefromafamilyofsculptors.Inhistimehewasconsideredthebestsculptortherewas.Intheart-historicalresearchBormanandhisoeuvreisnotclearlydefined.Hehadabusyworkshopwherehetrained,amongothers,hissonsJanIIIandPaschier.ThiswillbethefirstretrospectiveofBormanandtheexhibitionaimestoremovethemistssurroundingtheworksofBormanandhisworkshop.https://www.mleuven.be/en/borman-and-sons-finest-image-carverhttps://www.ards.be/agenda/0036

(Fig1)Christchurchpriory,Misericordcarvingfixedtoseatplatewithsquarepegsdriventhroughshouldersoffigure.Notealsosquarepegfittedthroughlipoftheseattosecurethemultiplepiecesusedtomakeupthemisericordseat.

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InMemoriamFernandoVillaseñorSebastiánIhavetheimmenselysaddutytoinformyouthatFernandoVillaseñorSebastiánpassedawayon15AprilinSantander(Spain).HeobtainedhisPhDwithadoctoralthesistitledApproachtotheCastilianbookillustrationinthelateMiddleAges(1454-1492):historic-artisticevolutionandmarginal iconography (University of Salamanca, 2008). He was appointed professor at theUniversityofCantabriaandwasrecognizedasadistinguishedmedievalistandhistorianofart.Hewasaspecialistonmedieval illustratedbooksandwrotenearlyhundredpublications.Themarginaliaofillustratedbooksledhimtothefascinatingworldofchoirstalls.ItwasthisareaonwhichIhavehadthegreathonourtocollaboratewithhimforthelastsixyears,since2014whenwe organized together the Misericordia International Conference (León, Spain). Recently wehave been working on the choir stalls of the cathedral of Segovia, the subject of the paperpresentedat the lastMisericordia InternationalConference (Rijeka,Croatia).Wewere lookingforwardtoinvestigatingtheseandmanyothergothicstallsinthefuture.FernandoVillaseñorSebastiánwas,besidesbeinganexcellentcolleague,averyclosefriendofmine. He was a wonderful person and all those who knew and loved him, will greatly missFernando.Hewillneverbeforgotten.MaríaDoloresTeijeiraUniversityofLeón(Spain)

NewsfromMisericordiaInternational

GeneralMeetingofMisericordiaInternational2019TheGeneralMeetingofMisericordiaInternational2019willbeinParis,September14th.Thisisnot what we agreed in Rijeka but it is easier for a lot of people to travel to Paris then toChâtillon-sur-Indre.Furtherinformationwillfollowassoonaspossible.

Colloquium2020TheColloquium2020will,alsoincontradictiontowhatweagreedinRijeka,beheldinAmiens.Because it turned out that it will be possible to hold the Colloquium together with thecelebrationsofthe800thanniversaryoftheAmiens-cathedral.Alsohere,furtherinformationwillfollowassoonaspossible.

ElaineBlockdatabaseattheIndexofChristianArtTheElaineBlockdatabaseattheIndexofChristianArtinPrincetonisoffline.Accordingtothedirector,PamelaPatton,theoriginaldesignoftheexternalresourcesisnolongersecureonline.Thatisthereasonthetechnologymanagertookthemdownandismakingtheneededchanges.Thismaytakeafewmonthsoverall.There’sanoticeonlinesothatresearchersareawareoftheissue.

Member’sPublicationsandActivities

SylvieBethmontBeneathare the links to thesite "Narthex"andalso theone to thesiteof "Theconversation",wherearticlesbySylvieBethmontontheNotre-DamedeParisarepublished:

http://theconversation.com/notre-dame-de-paris-cathedrale-ou-musee-116620http://www.narthex.fr/reflexions/le-sens-des-images/combat-dans-les-ruines-la-tristesse-l2019esperance-et-la-gloire-a-notre-dame-de-paris

ŽanaMatulićBilačŽanaMatulićBilačwillpresentapapernextmonthon the terminologyof the toolsmarksshefoundonthechoirstallsofTrogir.

https://www.ipu.hr/article/en/712/discovering-dalmatia-vhttp://www.h-r-z.hr/index.php/aktualno/novosti-i-obavijesti/3153-korska-sjedala-trogirske-katedrale-forenzicka-lenta-vremena

MaríaDoloresTeijeiraThebishopstall of thecathedralofPalencia (before1415)hasbeen removed from thechoirensemble for restoration.This transfermade itpossible tosee twosceneshidden in thesidepanels: an Annunciation and a Resurrection of Christ. The canopy has been dismantledshowing new marginal scenes and motifs and some interesting details of the constructionprocess.Thestallisgoingtobecleanedandrestored.Anexhibition,lecturesandpublicationsarealsoplanned.

ChristelTheunissenChristel Theunissen has researched the disappeared parts of the choir stalls of the Sint-Sulpitiuskerk in Diest. She traced parts of these stalls in country houses, museums andchurchesinBelgium,GreatBritainandIreland.OnSeptember8thshewillgiveatalkaboutherresults: The choir stalls of Diest: European heritage. You are very welcome on Sunday 8Septemberat2p.m.or3p.m.at theMuseumofReligiousArt intheSint-Sulpitiuskerk(Diest,Belgium)

CarlesPàmiesCarles Pàmies is the newest member of Misericordia International and with the followingabstracthewouldliketointroducehimselfTOWARDSAVIRTUALREPRESENTATIONOFTHEGOTHICCHOIRS:AChallengeandatoolforStudyingandHeritagePreservationABSTRACT:Although Ihavebeenmeticulouslycollecting theSpanishGothicstallswith figures forseveraldecades, I formally present the Sillerías Project toMisericordia International, to show theprogressachievedandtheaimssought,aswellastogatherfromfutureusersexperiencesandneedsthat theirusemayentail,aswellastosearchforpossible locationsordigitalaccesseswheretostorealltheinformation.The Project aims to compile the sculptural elements of all theGothic Choirs with figures forimmediate study, research, and contemplation, in all places where the digital catalog isaccessed or where the entire program is accessible for navigation.We originally planned tocarry out the 13 stalls with figures proposed by the Krausmarriage, although over time theProject remains in open mode, with the possibility of expanding the catalog available forconsultationandstudy.The Project began as an extension of Elaine C. Block’s work, the Corpus of MedievalMisericords, to modernize the graphic material and complete it with the exhaustive andadditional cataloging of all the carved pieces of the choirs: Misericordia, supports, panels,canopies, side panels, additional reliefs, etc. Initially, theworkwas done on hundreds of lowsensitivityslidestogetthebestdetail.AnunsuccessfulattemptwasmadetoobtainsomeformofassistanceorfundforthecompletionoftheProject.Withdigitaltechnologicaldevelopment,the following images were obtained with High-Resolution digital cameras, which allowed thepossibilityofformingtheideathatadigital imagecouldbeobtainedoftheentiresculpturesettogether,toaccessthepiecesmoredirectlyandinanenvironmentsimilartotheexistingone.The technological development in the treatment of the image, constantly being innovatedon,hasallowedtheimprovedandperfectedgraphicrepresentationofthechoirsuptothepresenttime inwhich, thanks to theuseofphotogrammetryand laserscans, it allowsadetailedandscaledrepresentationofthechoralensembles,allowingthereproductionoftheenvironmentforaccess, viewing and study.On the other hand, perfection in three-dimensional capturing alsoallowsthedigitalstorageofsculpturalcopies.The future improvement of three-dimensional physical reproduction techniques of sculptedmaterials may also allow the reproduction of copies, specific details or broad sets of thesculptures and mercies of the choirs, as well as facilitating restoration in case of physicaldamage(accidents,phytophagous,etc.)TheProject,asImentioned,isnotexclusivelyclosedtothescopeofGothicchoirswithsculptedfigures. It is a Project that aims to house other Gothic or Renaissance choirs, as well asextendingthescopeofactiontootherareasofEuropethatrequireanimprovedvisualgraphicstool,with easy access and of high quality that allows the enjoyment and study of theGothicchoirswithmaximumexcellence.CARLESPÀMIESSAURETLicenciado in Sciences of Information (Journalism) in the Universidad Autónoma deBarcelonaMasterinComunicationandEducationintheUniversidadAutónomadeBarcelonaSpecialist in Protection of Patrimony at the Fundació Centre Europeu del Patrimoni-Barcelona

STALLATheStalla-databaseisconstantlybeingupdatedwithnewrecordsandimagesofmedievalchoirstalls:http://www.ru.nl/stallaRecordsandimagesofthefollowingstallsareenteredin2019

Moudon(CH)Selm(D)Estavayer-le-Lac(CH)Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne(F)Herne(UK)Lenham(UK)Maidstone(UK)Minster-in-Thanet(UK)Newington(UK)Penshurst(UK)Sandwich(UK)Southfleet(UK

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DrNicholasRiall, a researcher formGreat Britain and doing research on the choir stalls atChristchurchpriory,Dorset(previouslyinHampshire).DrRiallisaskingforourhelp.Squarepegsinearlysixteenth-centuryecclesiasticalstallsandscreensinEnglandTheEnglishterm‘asquarepeginaroundhole’suggeststhatapersoninaparticularsituationisamisfit.Similarlywewouldnotexpectacarpentertousesquarepegsfittedintoroundholes.Andyet, theydoexist inwoodworkcreated forecclesiastical settings in the late fifteenthandearlysixteenthcenturies,butnonehavebeenwidelypublicised.SquarepegswereusedinthechoirstallsintheHospitalofStCross,Winchester,inHampshire.In2013-14amajorprogrammeofconservationwascarriedouton thesestalls.Thisprovidedthe opportunity to study the stalls in an extensive and comprehensive way, which includedpartiallydismantlingthemtoexaminedetailsoftheirconstruction.Theresultwasthatitbecamepossible tostate thatsquarepegswereutilised inastandardisedmanner,so thatwhenusedtheywere always employed for a specific purpose across the entirety of the work. In the StCrossworkitseemsthatthepresenceofbothroundandsquarepegswaslargelydeterminedtoform part of the design, for there was very little attempt to hide their presence. A secondcharacteristic is that square pegs were generally used to fix secondary pieces of work to aprimaryframe.ManymoresquarepegsaretobeseeninthechoirstallsofChristchurchpriory,Dorset,wheredecorativetraceryaddedtothestalldorsals,manyofthemisericordsandthebackstallcappingrailextensions,werefittedusingsquarepegs(Fig1).TheStCross stalls date to c.1513-15, thoseatChristchurch to c.1520-30.Both sets ofworkshowastrongsenseofFrenchandNetherlandishwork in the joinery, theywerecertainlynotmadebyEnglishcarpenters.ThethreeBreton-stylescreensinDevon,atBrushford,ColebrookeandColdridge,whichdatetobetweenthe1480sandearly1500s,providefurtherexamplesofthisusage.SquarepegsarenotafeatureofEnglishjoineryofthisperiod,butnoexampleshaveyetbeenfoundinEurope.Haveanyreadersencounteredthemduringtheirownstudies?NicholasRiall

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