French Gothic Architecture Of The 12th And 13th Centuries

Author : Jean Bony
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520055865
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Jean Bony and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances—the result of a continuining quest for new ways of handling space and light as well as experimenting with the mechanics of stone construction. He shows how the new architecture came unexpectedly to be invented in the Paris region around 1140 and follows its history—in the great cathedrals of northern France and dozens of other key buildings—to the end of the thirteenth century, when profound changes occurred in the whole fabric of medieval civilization. Rich illustrations, including comprehensive maps, enhance the text and themselves constitute an exceptionally valuable documenation. Despite its evident scholarly intention, this book is not meant for specialists alone, but is conceived as a progressive infiltration into the complexities of history at work, revealing its unpredictable vitality to the uninitiated curious mind.

Author : Jean Bony
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520907876
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Jean Bony and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances—the result of a continuining quest for new ways of handling space and light as well as experimenting with the mechanics of stone construction. He shows how the new architecture came unexpectedly to be invented in the Paris region around 1140 and follows its history—in the great cathedrals of northern France and dozens of other key buildings—to the end of the thirteenth century, when profound changes occurred in the whole fabric of medieval civilization. Rich illustrations, including comprehensive maps, enhance the text and themselves constitute an exceptionally valuable documenation. Despite its evident scholarly intention, this book is not meant for specialists alone, but is conceived as a progressive infiltration into the complexities of history at work, revealing its unpredictable vitality to the uninitiated curious mind.

Author : Jean Bony
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520028319
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries written by Jean Bony and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geïllustreerd historisch overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de middeleeuwse bouwstijl die in Frankrijk voornamelijk in kathedralen, kerken en kloosters zichtbaar wordt.

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524644323
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guidebook Selected French Gothic Cathedrals and Churches written by Richard Moore and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantive yet easy-to-use guide to selected French gothic churches and cathedrals provides profiles of fourteen important religious buildings. They are located in different parts of France, were constructed at different times and in different styles, and include both well-known and less well-known churches and cathedrals. They range from the tiny church of Saint Maclou in Rouenperhaps the best example of flamboyant designto the worlds most visited Gothic cathedral, Notre Dame in Paris. A second section of the book considers what a Gothic cathedral is as well as their medieval setting and the many architectural, artistic, and spiritual elements that comprise a Gothic cathedral. The guide is lavishly illustrated with photos and helpful images to help the readers derive the maximum benefit and pleasure from their Gothic church and cathedral visits.

Author : Maile S. Hutterer
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271083445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Church written by Maile S. Hutterer and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Gothic architecture and the visual and cultural significance of the adoption of externalized buttressing systems in twelfth-century France. Demonstrates how buttressing frames operated as sites of display, points of transition, and mechanisms of demarcation.

Author : Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Thomas Graham Jackson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Architecture in France, England, and Italy written by Thomas Graham Jackson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
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Download or read book How France Built Her Cathedrals written by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Vredenburgh Van Pelt
Publisher : New York : Pencil Points Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Monuments of French Gothic Architecture written by John Vredenburgh Van Pelt and published by New York : Pencil Points Press Incorporated. This book was released on 1924 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Recht
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226706060
Total Pages : 389 pages
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Download or read book Believing and Seeing written by Roland Recht and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, and elaborate structures. In his incisive survey of Gothic art and architecture, Roland Recht argues that this preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Metalworkers, for example, fashioned intricate monstrances and reliquaries for the presentation of sacred articles, and technical advances in stained glass production allowed for more expressive renderings of holy objects. Sculptors, meanwhile, created increasingly naturalistic works and painters used multihued palettes to enhance their subjects’ lifelike qualities. Reimagining these works as a link between devotional practices in the late Middle Ages and contemporaneous theories that deemed vision the basis of empirical truth, Recht provides students and scholars with a new and powerful lens through which to view Gothic art and architecture.