Art & Architecture

High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens

    Translated by
  • James Palmes

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$48.00
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Published:
Mar 21, 1984
1984
Pages:
232
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.
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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.