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Author Bork, Robert Odell, 1967- author

Title Late Gothic architecture : its evolution, extinction, and reception / Robert Bork
Published Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
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Description x, 552 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Series Architectura medii aevi ; Vol. X
Architectura medii aevi ; v. 10
Contents Machine generated contents note: Terminology and historiography -- Reconsidering the fate of late Gothic architecture -- ch. 1 Getting the Point---Antiquity to 1300 -- Architectural innovation from Vitruvius to the dawn of the Gothic Era -- French Gothic architectural innovation from 1130 to 1300 -- The international spread of the Gothic mode from 1170 to 1300 -- ch. 2 From Gothic to Late Gothic---1300 to 1350 -- Gothic architecture and the figural arts in Giotto's world -- The emergence of the Decorated and Perpendicular Styles in England -- Continental variations on the Gothic tradition -- ch. 3 The Evolution of Late Gothic---1350 to 1400 -- The Black Death and the tenor of the age -- The German Empire and Central Europe in the Age of the Parlers -- England and the triumph of the Perpendicular -- France, Burgundy, and the Netherlands -- Iberia -- Northern Italy and the Milan debates -- ch. 4 The Antique Mode and its Gothic Context---1400 to 1450 --
Contents note continued: The emergence of all'antica design in Florence -- The social context of European architecture in the early fifteenth century -- France and Burgundy -- The Holy Roman Empire and Central Europe -- Poland and the Baltic -- England -- Portugal -- Spain -- ch. 5 Polarized Modernisms---1450 to 1500 -- Contrasting conventions and contexts of architectural practice -- Italy: Alberti, Francesco di Giorgio, and the architectural treatise -- France -- Burgundy and the Low Countries -- The Germanic World -- Hungary and the reign of Matthias Corvinus -- Bohemia -- Poland -- England -- Portugal -- Spain -- ch. 6 Collision and Hybridity---1500 to 1525 -- Synthesis and its limits -- Italy -- France -- The Low Countries: The reign of Margaret of Austria -- The Germanic World: Durer, Luther, and the Fuggers -- Hungary -- Bohemia -- Poland -- England -- Portugal -- Spain -- ch. 7 Purge, Extinction, and Appropriation -- The decline and displacement of the Gothic tradition --
Contents note continued: Italy -- France -- The Netherlands -- The Germanic world and its southeastern neighbors -- Poland -- Portugal -- Spain -- England
Summary In this book, Robert Bork offers a sweeping reassessment of late Gothic architecture and its fate in the Renaissance. In a chronologically organized narrative covering the whole of western and central Europe, he demonstrates that the Gothic design tradition remained inherently vital throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, creating spectacular monuments in a wide variety of national and regional styles. Bork argues that the displacement of this Gothic tradition from its long-standing position of artistic leadership in the years around 1500 reflected the impact of three main external forces: the rise of a rival architectural culture that championed the use of classical forms with a new theoretical sophistication; the appropriation of that architectural language by patrons who wished to associate themselves with papal and imperial Rome; and the chaos of the Reformation, which disrupted the circumstances of church construction on which the Gothic tradition had formerly depended. Bork further argues that art historians have much to gain from considering the character and fate of late Gothic architecture, not only because the monuments in question are intrinsically fascinating, but also because examination of the way their story has been told?and left untold, in many accounts of the "Northern Renaissance" can reveal a great deal about schemes of categorization and prioritization that continue to shape the discipline even in the twenty-first century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-464) and index
Subject Architecture, Gothic.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Church architecture -- History -- To 1500.
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9782503568942 (paperback)
2503568947 (paperback)