“Types of Representation and Use” — Renate Wagner-Rieger and The Architecture of the Mendicant Order

Renate Wagner-Rieger had a keen eye for architectural typology, which in the case of the churches of the mendicant orders made her sensitive to the adoption of Cistercian models and simple building types of older and smaller religious communities. She also recognised the Franciscan three-chapel hall...

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Main Author: Wolfgang Schenkluhn
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Published: Croatian Society of Art Historians 2022-01-01
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description Renate Wagner-Rieger had a keen eye for architectural typology, which in the case of the churches of the mendicant orders made her sensitive to the adoption of Cistercian models and simple building types of older and smaller religious communities. She also recognised the Franciscan three-chapel hall in rudimentary form, although without grasping its innovative significance, and she made an interesting distinction between representational and functional types in the mendicant orders, although it remains open whether this is due more to the 19th century’s understanding of style than to medieval perceptions.
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spelling doaj-art-96cd8d2c19fc494287afa7ff6ef190db2025-08-20T02:22:38ZengCroatian Society of Art HistoriansPeristil0553-67071849-65472022-01-01651455610.17685/Peristil.65.4“Types of Representation and Use” — Renate Wagner-Rieger and The Architecture of the Mendicant OrderWolfgang Schenkluhn0Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Institute for European Art History and Archaeologies, Halle (Saale), GermanyRenate Wagner-Rieger had a keen eye for architectural typology, which in the case of the churches of the mendicant orders made her sensitive to the adoption of Cistercian models and simple building types of older and smaller religious communities. She also recognised the Franciscan three-chapel hall in rudimentary form, although without grasping its innovative significance, and she made an interesting distinction between representational and functional types in the mendicant orders, although it remains open whether this is due more to the 19th century’s understanding of style than to medieval perceptions.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/435489mendicant architecturetypologymethodology
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mendicant architecture
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title “Types of Representation and Use” — Renate Wagner-Rieger and The Architecture of the Mendicant Order
title_full “Types of Representation and Use” — Renate Wagner-Rieger and The Architecture of the Mendicant Order
title_fullStr “Types of Representation and Use” — Renate Wagner-Rieger and The Architecture of the Mendicant Order
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title_short “Types of Representation and Use” — Renate Wagner-Rieger and The Architecture of the Mendicant Order
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