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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:32:32 +0100 From: Avril Kay Henry <[log in to unmask]> TO ALL MEDIEVALISTS: A NEW, FREE, ON-LINE ART RESOURCE Avril K. Henry and Anna C. Hulbert Exeter Cathedral Keystones and Carvings: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Medieval Interior Sculptures and their Polychromy This free website offers a comprehensive visual and verbal explanatory catalogue of all the figurative medieval bosses, corbels and labelstops (with a few other interior carvings) which are an integral part of the medieval interior construction of the Cathedral. It is at: http://www.exetercathedral.tell-com.com and at http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/ (VADS--the Visual Arts Data Service “providing, preserving and promoting digital resources for Research, Learning and Teaching”). Click ‘search collections’ in the left-hand column, then ‘Exeter Cathedral’ in the right-hand column. The web-site will interest medievalists, art historians, architects, lovers of Gothic cathedrals, sculpture and polychromy---and anyone who would like to know the often spectacular medieval carvings in Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England. The web-site may also interest anyone seeking funding for academic web-site production, for Tell Communications now own the template we designed, and it could easily be modified to suit any project linking words to images, whatever the discipline (art, illustration, geology, archaeology, medicine, history, literature, etc.) The subsequent availability of the template was one reason for its production being funded by my Emeritus Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, whose invaluable and imaginative support is gratefully acknowledged. You can easily move from anywhere to anywhere else on the site, using numerous hot-spots in texts, miniplans placed at strategic points to locate the position of any object in the cathedral, and Navigation Buttons. All these usually lead to thumbnail images of the objects with accompanying descriptions, and thence to enlargements. The Navigation Buttons are: CATHEDRAL PLAN gives access to all the major objects treated (the rest are accessible via Contents or Catalogue). Clickable miniplans appear where appropriate. SEARCH (Simple Search) is self-explanatory. CONTENTS is possibly the simplest way into the material. CATALOGUE provides a complete, visual and verbal explanatory record of all the recorded objects. INTRODUCTION contextualises the sculptures in the architectural history of the building. IMAGES gives access to clickable thumbnail images of all the treated objects, conveniently arranged in cathedral-area groups. BIBLIOGRAPHY and FOOTNOTES provide the usual scholarly infrastructure. My co-author Anna Hulbert died in March 2000. She and I always hoped that the resource would be useful to researchers, exploited by teachers, and enjoyed by everyone. It is at least, thanks to the medieval craftsmen, lovely to look at. Avril Henry Professor Emerita, University of Exeter, UK. ([log in to unmask]: Your comments on, and corrections to the website would be most welcome)