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

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High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens - Jantzen, Hans, and Palmes, James (Translated by)
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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 ...

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High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens 1984, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691003726

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