Author: Barr Ferree
Publisher:
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Category : Cathedrals
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Stan Parry
Publisher: Oro Editions
ISBN: 9781939621788
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Great Gothic Cathedrals of France guides readers on a tour of twelve French cathedrals that best exemplify one of the greatest glories of Western civilization. From the beautiful facade of Notre-Dame in Paris to the transcendent beauty of the stained glass at Chartres, this book clarifies the significant elements of their architecture by means of its text and images. The cathedrals of Amiens, Paris, Saint Denis, Chartres, Reims, Laon, Noyon, Soissons, Sens, Beauvais, Bourges and Troyes as well as Sainte-Chapelle are all presented to give the reader and visitor to France a clear understanding of these extraordinary buildings. This publication also provides the reader with a chapter on how to "read" a stained glass window.

Author: James Bentham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: W. Henley Jervis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382143011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Malcolm B. Miller
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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The author is the world's foremost authority on Chartres, and is in residence there most of the year. He shows us the history of the cathedral and teaches us how to "read" the world-famous stained glass and sculpture, explaining the references to Scripture and the teachings of the Church. Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture. Medieval art was intended not just to embellish the church but to instruct the people, for there was no printing. Scholars could therefore teach their students, the clergy preach sermons and parents read the lives of the saints to their children using the 'texts' in stained glass and sculpture. The sister churches of Chartres have been sadly vandalized to varying degrees by Reform, revolution, war or natural disaster. Here in Chartres the 'text' is virtually complete. A concise glossary of symbolic images has been included as well as a complete plan of all the windows in the cathedral, and an index.

Author:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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An architectural monthly.

Author: Edward A. Freeman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752394587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Reproduction of the original: History of the Cathedral Church by Edward A. Freeman

Author: Jean Bony
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055865
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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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: José Pijoan Y Soteras
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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