Space, Time, and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France

For four years Assistant Professor of Art Andrew Tallon engaged in a research project entitled "Mapping Gothic France," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which took him (and several Vassar students) along countless kilometers and through hundreds of French towns and villages to explore and document, using the latest technology, the key Gothic buildings of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. To mark the public launch of the resultant website, which featured a database of over 10,000 images, texts and historical maps, Professor Tallon, assisted by Ani Kodzhabasheva, Vassar College class of 2012, and students of his spring semester seminar, “Gothic Architecture and the Creation of France," mounted an innovative and engaging exhibition in the Loeb's atrium. Viewers were invited to experience Gothic architecture in the parallel dimensions of space, time, and narrative through texts, large-scale digital projections, and interactive virtual-reality images.

There are works that appeared in this exhibition that were loans to the Loeb and therefore do not appear on this website.