The Gothic Cathedral:
Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order. Expanded Edition
Otto Georg Von Simson

Paper | 1988 | $29.95 / £20.95
364 pp.

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Reviews:

"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

"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

Series:

• Bollingen Series (General)

Subject Areas:

• Art and Architecture
• Religion

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For customers in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Australia
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Paper: £20.95 ISBN13: 978-0-691-01867-6

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