High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1984
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- Title
- High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens
- Author
- Jantzen, Hans
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691003726
- ISBN 13
- 9780691003726
- Item weight
- 0.6 pounds
This engaging study introduces the reader to one of the greatest achievements of Western art: the climactic phase of Gothic architecture in the first half of the thirteenth century. Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characterizes the different parts of the Gothic cathedral and describes the human context of the three great buildings.
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From the Back Cover
"An uncommonly readable analysis of the major features of Gothic
architecture in its mature phase and an ideal introduction to the subject."--Walter Cahn, Yale University
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