The Gothic cathedral : origins of Gothic architecture and the medieval concept of order / Otto von Simson.

Main entry:

Simson, Otto von, 1912-1993, author

Title & Author:

The Gothic cathedral : origins of Gothic architecture and the medieval concept of order / Otto von Simson.

Edition:

THird edition, with additions

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1988.
©1988

Description:

xxiii, 282 pages, 51 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Bollingen series ; 48

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.
Gothic form -- Measure and light -- Suger of St. Denis -- The new church -- Sens and Chartres West -- The Palace of the Virgin -- The Cathedral of Chartres.

Summary:

French cathedrals and Gothic architecture.
"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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Publisher description

ISBN:

9780691018676 (pbk.)
0691018677 (pbk.)
0691099596
9780691099590

Subject:

Cathedrals France.
Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500.
Architecture, Gothic France.
Architecture Orders.
Cathédrales France.
Architecture gothique France.
Architecture Ordres.
architectural orders (assembly and style)
Architecture, Gothic
Cathedrals
Christian art and symbolism Medieval
Gotik
Architectuurtheorieën.
Kathedralen.
Gotiek.
Architecture gothique.
Dom.
Geschichte (1130-1260)
France

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Bollingen series ; 48.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 37172
Call No.: ID:88-B8200
Status: Available

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