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The Gothic Cathedral

By Otto Georg Von Simson

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1956
ISBN
0691018677, 9780691018676
LCC
NA5543 .S56 1988
Open Library ID
OL2405882M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23704510 bytes)
Edition
Expanded
Pages
364\177
Topic
Art
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47
Искусство и искусствоведение;История искусств;Иску

Description

''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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