| Description |
122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge introduction to art |
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Cambridge introduction to art.
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| Contents |
1. Romanesque architecture and art -- St. Sernin, Toulouse : a 'Pilgrimage Road' church -- Porte Miegeville : the Ascension of Christ -- Ste-Foy, Conques : a little girl's shrine -- St-Pierre, Moissac : beautiful deformity and deformed beauty -- La Madeleine, Vezelay : the gift of tongues -- S. Clemente, Taull : a painted Christ -- Fontenay Abbey : Cistercian asceticism -- Durham : a massive Anglo-Norman cathedral -- Pisa cathedral complex : Tuscan arcading -- Houses and castles -- Summary of Romanesque architecture and art -- 2. Early gothic architecture and art -- The abbey of St-Denis, Abbot Suger, and the 'True Light' -- Stained glass -- Chartres : the Royal Portal and the statue-column -- Laon Cathedral and the conquest of height -- Notre-Dame de Paris and the flying buttress -- Canterbury Cathedral : the early English style -- Everyday crafts and precious treasures -- Nicholas of Verdun, the Klosterneuburg Altar and typological parallels -- The Ingeborg Psalter -- Summary of Early gothic architecture and art -- 3. High gothic architecture and art -- The stonemasons and gothic architecture -- Chartres cathedral : a gothic encyclopaedia -- Reims Cathedral : the harmony of high gothic -- St-Etienne at Bourges : a different solution -- The Sainte-Chapelle and the Rayonnant style -- Salisbury Cathedral : a unified design -- St Elizabeth at Marburg : German gothic -- Manuscript illumination : 'The Heavenly Jerusalem' -- The Naumburg choir figures and gothic naturalism -- Summary of High gothic architecture and art -- 4. Late gothic architecture and art -- Santa croce, Florence : a Franciscan preaching church -- Gloucester cathedral : the perpendicular style -- Peter Parler and the cathedral of St Vitus in Prague -- Two chapels -- Private dwellings -- Late gothic sculpture : Giovanni Pisano -- The Virgin of jeanne d'Evreux -- Late gothic manuscripts : the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux -- The Unicorn Tapestries : the Unicorn in captivity -- Summary of Late gothic architecture and art |
| Summary |
An introduction to Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture in Western Europe between 1050-1450 ranges from the ecclesiastical splendor of vast churches to resplendent tapestries, manuscripts, and stained glass |
| Analysis |
Art, Gothic |
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Art, Romanesque |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 120) and index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 120 |
| Subject |
Architecture, Medieval -- Juvenile literature.
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Art, Gothic -- Juvenile literature.
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Art, Gothic.
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Art, Medieval -- Juvenile literature.
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Art, Medieval.
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Art, Romanesque -- Juvenile literature.
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Art, Romanesque.
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| LC no. |
81009989 |
| ISBN |
0521232090 |
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0521298709 |
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