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Engineering & Technology / Architecture , Engineering &Technology / The Rise of the Gothic by William Anderson
Saturday, November 21, 2009
 | - Book Title: The Rise of the Gothic
- Author: William Anderson
- ISBN: 0881621099
- Publisher: Hutchinson
- Year Published: 1985
- Our Price: £31.90 GBP ($52.64 USD)
- Description: Hutchinson 1985: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8 x 11 inches tall: 208 pages including index: black and white illustrations throughout: full-page colour plates.Synopsis: A comprehensive suvey of the origins and history of Gothic Art from its development in the Paris region 1135 - 1150, by artists giving a visual form to the Christian idea of the worth of the individual soul in new styles of architecture, sculpture, and stained-glass at St- Denis, Sens and Chartres ; and its eventual expansion to Poland, The West of Ireland, Scandinavia, Southern Italy, and the Middle East. Contents : Chapters entitled: --The Beginnings. St-Denis, Sens and Chartres. The pointed arch: people, patrons and masons. Technology and the Spirit. A new image of man. The world of the Green Man. The Angelic Orders and the Eternal Feminine. The drama of the Gothic. Gothic Space. The Prentice Pillar. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs by Clive Hicks include :- Cathedrals at Amiens,Chartres, Rheims , Notre Dame, Saint-Denis, Salisbury. Bourges, Burgos, Auxerre : Interiors at Cluny , Beauvais , St -Denis, Ely, Norwich, Cologne, Toledo, St Marks -Venice, Pontigny, Noyon , Wales, Dublin, Chatres, Autun, Amiens, Le Mans, Dunblane, Salisbury, Durham, Assisi, Marburg, Barcelona, Exeter,Segovia, Albi, Auxerre, St. Ouen : Towers at Laon, Freiberg- im- Breisgau,Salisbury; and details of stained glass , sculpture , butresses, corbels, portals, capitals, etc. Condition edge of dust jacket wrapped and repaired: overall very clean and good
- Condition: Collectable- Good
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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