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Gothic Painters of the North
Faison Jr., S. Lane | May 26, 1956 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Norway: Paintings From the Stave Churches." This volume, the fifth in the luxurious UNESCO series, is perhaps the most interesting because it opens up a field almost unknown except to a few scholars. While the wooden stavkirker and their carved portals have been widely published, the Gothic paintings on their simple vaults and their flat altar-frontals have not. They strike a curious note in their utterly indigenous architectural context, for their art is strongly rooted in European, especially English Gothic sources.

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NORWAY (Book); PAINTING, Gothic; STAVE churches; ARCHITECTURE, Gothic; CHURCH architecture; ART
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