The Cathedrals Of France
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Author |
: Stan Parry |
Publisher |
: Oro Editions |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2017-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 193962178X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781939621788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Great Gothic Cathedrals of France by : Stan Parry
Great Gothic Cathedrals of France guides readers on a tour of twelve French cathedrals that best exemplify one of the greatest glories of Western civilization. From the beautiful facade of Notre-Dame in Paris to the transcendent beauty of the stained glass at Chartres, this book clarifies the significant elements of their architecture by means of its text and images. The cathedrals of Amiens, Paris, Saint Denis, Chartres, Reims, Laon, Noyon, Soissons, Sens, Beauvais, Bourges and Troyes as well as Sainte-Chapelle are all presented to give the reader and visitor to France a clear understanding of these extraordinary buildings. This publication also provides the reader with a chapter on how to "read" a stained glass window.
Author |
: Auguste Rodin |
Publisher |
: Black Swan Books, Limited |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015006737236 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cathedrals of France by : Auguste Rodin
Author |
: David Macaulay |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 118 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395316685 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395316689 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cathedral by : David Macaulay
This richly illustrated book shows the intricate step-by-step process of an imaginary cathedral's growth.
Author |
: Jean Bony |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 676 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520055861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520055865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by : Jean Bony
Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances—the result of a continuining quest for new ways of handling space and light as well as experimenting with the mechanics of stone construction. He shows how the new architecture came unexpectedly to be invented in the Paris region around 1140 and follows its history—in the great cathedrals of northern France and dozens of other key buildings—to the end of the thirteenth century, when profound changes occurred in the whole fabric of medieval civilization. Rich illustrations, including comprehensive maps, enhance the text and themselves constitute an exceptionally valuable documenation. Despite its evident scholarly intention, this book is not meant for specialists alone, but is conceived as a progressive infiltration into the complexities of history at work, revealing its unpredictable vitality to the uninitiated curious mind.
Author |
: Dany Sandron |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2020-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271087702 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271087706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Notre Dame Cathedral by : Dany Sandron
Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of 2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this quintessential French monument are once more at the forefront. This all-too-prescient book, first published in French in 2013, takes a central place in the conversation. The Gothic cathedral par excellence, Notre Dame set the architectural bar in the competitive years of the third quarter of the twelfth century and dazzled the architects and aesthetes of the Enlightenment with its structural ingenuity. In the nineteenth century, the cathedral became the touchstone of a movement to restore medieval patrimony to its rightful place at the cultural heart of France: it was transformed into a colossal laboratory in which architects Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc anatomized structures, dismembered them, put them back, or built them anew—all the while documenting their work with scientific precision. Taking as their point of departure a three-dimensional laser scan of the cathedral created in 2010, architectural historians Dany Sandron and the late Andrew Tallon tell the story of the construction and reconstruction of Notre Dame in visual terms. With over a billion points of data, the scan supplies a highly accurate spatial map of the building, which is anatomized and rebuilt virtually. Fourteen double-page images represent the cathedral at specific points in time, while the accompanying text sets out the history of the building, addressing key topics such as the fundraising campaign, the construction of the vaults, and the liturgical function of the choir. Featuring 170 full-color illustrations and elegantly translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook, Notre Dame Cathedral is an enlightening history of one of the world’s most treasured architectural achievements.
Author |
: Maile S. Hutterer |
Publisher |
: Penn State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0271083441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271083445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Framing the Church by : Maile S. Hutterer
Examines Gothic architecture and the visual and cultural significance of the adoption of externalized buttressing systems in twelfth-century France. Demonstrates how buttressing frames operated as sites of display, points of transition, and mechanisms of demarcation.
Author |
: Jacqueline E. Jung |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107022959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107022959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gothic Screen by : Jacqueline E. Jung
This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.
Author |
: John Green |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2013-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486283395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486283399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cathedrals of the World Coloring Book by : John Green
This fascinating volume invites colorists of all ages to color detailed illustrations of 40 great churches from around the world. Includes St. Paul's (London), Chartres (France), Notre Dame (Paris), Cologne (Germany), St. Peter's (Rome), St. Basil's (Moscow), St. Patrick's (New York), the Washington Cathedral, and more.
Author |
: Malcolm B. Miller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015053409341 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chartres Cathedral by : Malcolm B. Miller
The author is the world's foremost authority on Chartres, and is in residence there most of the year. He shows us the history of the cathedral and teaches us how to "read" the world-famous stained glass and sculpture, explaining the references to Scripture and the teachings of the Church. Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture. Medieval art was intended not just to embellish the church but to instruct the people, for there was no printing. Scholars could therefore teach their students, the clergy preach sermons and parents read the lives of the saints to their children using the 'texts' in stained glass and sculpture. The sister churches of Chartres have been sadly vandalized to varying degrees by Reform, revolution, war or natural disaster. Here in Chartres the 'text' is virtually complete. A concise glossary of symbolic images has been included as well as a complete plan of all the windows in the cathedral, and an index.
Author |
: Auguste Rodin |
Publisher |
: David Zwirner Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1644230461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781644230466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cathedral Is Dying by : Auguste Rodin
Master sculptor Auguste Rodin’s illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor’s book Cathedrals of France, first published in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin thought about his art: he saw them as visual metaphors for the human figure, among the finest examples of craftsmanship known to modern man, and as a model for how to live and work—slowly, brick by brick. Here, Corbett takes the fire at Notre Dame and the concerns over its restoration as an entry point in an exploration of Rodin's cathedrals. Rodin adamantly opposed restoration, as he felt it often did more damage than the original injury. (Many of the cathedrals that Rodin looks at in his texts were, in fact, bombed during the war.) But while he rails against various restoration efforts as evidence that “we are letting our cathedrals die,” the book, with its tenderly rendered sketches and written portraits, is itself an attempt to preserve these cathedrals. The selection of texts in this volume is a reminder—as is the tragedy of Notre Dame—of why we ought to appreciate these feats of architecture, whether or not they are still standing today.