L'église de Chamalières-sur-Loire
A 1901 French monograph on the Romanesque church of Saint-Gilles at Chamalières-sur-Loire, written by the architectural historian Noël Thiollier and published in Le Puy, aimed at scholars of medieval architecture and ornament. Its plates, though the pictures here show Egyptian funerary portrait masks and a carved relief fragment rather than church architecture, present high-contrast black-and-white photographs of sculpted faces with carefully rendered hair, eyes and headdresses, useful to designers studying sculptural modelling, stylised facial features and carved surface texture.
