Gislebert

Gislebert or Gislebertus is a Sculpteur 12th century known for its work with the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare of Autun whose tympanum is signed of its name.

Its style characterizes the Romanesque art Burgundian that one finds in the sculptures of the Basilique Sainte Marie-madeleine of Vézelay.

In comparison with certain historians of the art (of which the goal is to put in perspective the object in its context and to support consequently a more precise analysis), it would seem that it is not the name of the artist him even, but more that of a patron who would have ordered work to him.

“the name is a orthographic fingerprint, known as Linda Seidel, which makes it possible to identify the ancestor like the descendant; more particularly, the fact of naming establishes the history in the future as in the past (p. 14). For the author, the insertion of the name within the epigraph takes part consequently of a strategy éponyme, of which the function is to commemorate and of magnifier the particular action of an ancestor, a phenomenon proven at the same time not only in Burgundy, but in all Europe (p. 15). The name thus associates with Saint-Lazare an individual named Gislebertus and the memory perpetuates some. As she will affirm it front in the analysis, Linda Seidel does not think that it can be a question of the sculptor - it qualifies Gislebertus of fictitious fabricator (p. 52) -, but of some important character engaged in the invention of the relics of Lazare, moral a mover to some extent (p. 72). By traversing the contemporary charters of the construction of Saint-Lazare, she discovers two thus Gislebertus in Autun: a capellanus, quoted like witness in a deed of gift in favor of the Saint-Nazaire cathedral, datable of the second quarter of the xiie century; a buticularius, witness in 1120 of various transactions between the duke of Burgundy and the bishop of Autun on the one hand, between the king Louis VI and churches of Direction and Avallon on the other hand. At that time, the name is altogether rather common to Autun and in the neighborhoods, so that one can wonder with the author if it is not one or the other of these Gislebertus which would be celebrated with the tympanum.”

External bonds

Gislebert in Artcyclopedia

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