The Dispersed Sculpture of Parthenay and the Contributions of Nuclear Science.
TWENTY-TWO limestone sculptures, thought to have once decorated the now-destroyed 12th-century church Notre-Dame-de-la-Couldre in Parthenay (Deux-Sèvres), are dispersed in numerous American and French museum collections. To assess their provenance, stylistic analysis and documentary evidence are her...
| Publicado en: | Medieval Archaeology Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 247 - 281 |
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2005
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