High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens
Paperback
- Price:
- $49.95
- ISBN:
- Published:
- Mar 21, 1984
- Copyright:
- 1984
- Pages:
- 232
- Size:
- 5.5 x 8.5 in.
- Main_subject:
- Art & Architecture
- Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada), Ireland, South Africa, Myanmar, Iraq, and Jordan
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.