Muldenstil

…German term for this style—Muldenstil. This drapery convention is essentially a Greek invention of the 4th century bce. It seems likely that Nicholas seized the whole figure style as a tool to be used in the general exploration of new forms of realism. It remained extremely popular well into…

…Meuse Valley, was the so-called Muldenfaltenstil, named for the small, troughlike folds into which drapery breaks (e.g., the Psalter of Queen Ingeborg, northern France, c. 1200). In Germany this style is found in manuscripts made on the middle Rhine and at Regensburg.