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The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure--its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284--and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This lavishly illustrated and elegantly written book represents the first serious look at the stunning collection of Gothic stained glass windows that has always dominated the experience of those who enter Beauvais Cathedral.
Chapter by chapter, Michael Cothren traces the glazing through four successive campaigns that bridged the century between the 1240s and the 1340s. The reader is transported back in history, gaining fascinating insight into what the glazing of Beauvais actually would have looked like as well as what it would have communicated to those who frequented the cathedral. Contrary to the widespread assumption that these windows are heavily restored, Cothren shows that they are in fact surprisingly well preserved, especially in light of the cathedral's infamous history of architectural disaster.
More importantly, Cothren goes far to dismantle a long-held misconception about medieval painted windows, and indeed monumental medieval pictorial art in general: the notion that it was conceived and produced as a substitute text for ignorant, illiterate folks, providing for them a "Bible of the Poor." Indeed, Cothren shows us that stained glass windows, rich with shaded meanings, functioned more like sermon than scripture. As an ensemble, they created a radiant interpretive backdrop that explicated and situated the performance of the Mass in this giant liturgical theater.
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"[T]his is a splendid selection of both archival and recent photographs that provides excellent visual documentation. . . . [T]his book . . . without a doubt constitutes the most accessible scholarly study of the 13th- and 14th- century glazing of Beauvais Cathedral to date and is likely long to remain so. . . . Cothren hs not only worked out the chronology of the glas brilliantly; he presents it here with admirable clarity." --James Bugslag, Journal of Stained Glass
"Cothren's agility in choosing the appropriate means with which to tease out a possible solution to a given problem allows him to embrace the multifaceted approach crucial to an understanding of the monument as a whole. His visual observations of the figural as well as physiognomic style in each window, carried out on a microanalytic level, elicit questions and suggestions that lead to the most complete investigation of the glazing program of Beauvais up to the present time." --Mary Weitzel Gibbons, Church History
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"Cothren's agility in choosing the appropriate means with which to tease out a possible solution to a given problem allows him to embrace the multifaceted approach crucial to an understanding of the monument as a whole. His visual observations of the figural as well as physiognomic style in each window, carried out on a microanalytic level, elicit questions and suggestions that lead to the most complete investigation of the glazing program of Beauvais up to the present time." --Mary Weitzel Gibbons, Church History
Michael W. Cothren is Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College and consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum, home to one of the most distinguished collections of medieval stained glass in the United States.
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- EditorePrinceton Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0691120803
- ISBN 13 9780691120805
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine276
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Picturing the Celestial City: The medieval Stained Glass of Beauvais Cathedral
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: VG/VG. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; navy dust jacket, color illustrated with yellow lettering; xii, 276 pp; illustrated in color and bw. "The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure - its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284 - and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This illustrated book represents the first serious look at the stunning collection of Gothic stained glass windows that has always dominated the experience of those who enter Beauvais Cathedral."--Jacket. Contents include: Preface -- Introduction -- The first campaign: glazing the Virgin Chapel during the 1240s -- The second campaign: The original glazing of the Upper Choir, ca. 1255-1265 -- The third campaign: post-collapse repair and refurbishment in chapels during the 1290s -- The fourth campaign: restorers and creators, working upstairs and down in the 1340s -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Transformation and restoration of the medieval glazing: a brief history -- Appendix B: Stained glass from the Saint-John Chapel, now in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens -- Appendix C: The houses of Roche Guyon and the Chatelains of Beauvais in the fourteenth century. Codice articolo 183820
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Descrizione libro Oversize Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark blue cloth boards. Light wear to dust jacket. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 278 pages. Many illustrations. "The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure--its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284--and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This lavishly illustrated and elegantly written book represents the first serious look at the stunning collection of Gothic stained glass windows that has always dominated the experience of those who enter Beauvais Cathedral." [publisher]. Codice articolo 154268
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