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Gothic Art

By Victoria Charles , Klaus H. Carl

Book information

Publisher
Parkstone International
Year
2008
ISBN
978-1-78042-812-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
63 MB (66524069 bytes)
Series
Art of Century
Pages
\200
Time added
2016-09-19 00:29:54

Description

Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that developed all across Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving Roman roundish forms behind, the architects started using flying buttress and pointed arches to open cathedrals to the daylight. Period of great economic and social changes, the gothic period also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, at the opposite to the fearful iconography of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all the different arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), gothic gave way to the Italian renaissance and international gothic.

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