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

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1992
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 225
Edition: New title
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 17 Sep 1992
ISBN 10: 0691003726
ISBN 13: 9780691003726

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This book is unquestionably a major contribution to our understanding of the formal organization of Gothic architecture. --Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Jantzen's method of analysis is a happy mixture of the archaeological approach of the early twentieth-century French historians of medieval architecture and of the more theoretically-minded German schools. --Robert Branner, journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism