The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition - Rilegato

Simson, Otto Georg Von

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ISBN 10: 0691099596 ISBN 13: 9780691099590

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1988

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The Description for this book, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, will be forthcoming.

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"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

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0691099596
• ISBN 13: 9780691099590
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275