Dear Abby,
Exeter is spelt Exeter, not Exerter!
It's a stunning website.
Yours, Meg
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> From: Abigail Ann Young [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 September 2001 20:05
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> Subject: New Medieval Website: Exerter Cathedral: the interior
> sculptures (fwd)
>
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> 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)
