| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 282 pages, 51 pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Bollingen series ; 48 |
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Bollingen series ; 48.
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| Contents |
Gothic form -- Measure and light -- Suger of St. Denis -- The new church -- Sens and Chartres West -- The Palace of the Virgin -- The Cathedral of Chartres |
| Summary |
French cathedrals and Gothic architecture |
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"The Gothic Cathedral is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date. ... If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr. von Simson rightly declares, they must be seen not in the light of twentieth-century esthetic observation, but of twelfth-century religious experience, through which the supernatural permeated every aspect of human existence. ... The resulting interpretation of the monuments is a critical tour de force."--Allan Temko, The New York Times Book Review |
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"Not since Mont-St.-Michel and Chartres has so poetic and so evocative a study of the Gothic movement been published. ... The Gothic Cathedral is based on a wide factual as well as intuitive knowledge, transformed by the author's illuminating style into a text both formidable and pleasurable."--The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cathedrals -- France
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Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Architecture, Gothic -- France
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Architecture -- Orders.
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architectural orders (assembly and style)
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Architecture, Gothic
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Architecture -- Orders
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Cathedrals
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Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval
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Gotik
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Architectuurtheorieën.
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Kathedralen.
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Gotiek.
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Architecture gothique.
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Cathédrales -- France.
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Dom.
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Geschichte (1130-1260)
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780691214030 |
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0691214034 |
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