Believing and Seeing: The Art of Gothic Cathedrals

Whittall, Mary, Recht, Roland

In "Believing and Seeing", Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Reimagining these works as a link between devotional practices in the late Middle Ages and contemporaneous theories that deemed vision the basis of empirical truth, Recht provides students and scholars with a new lens through which to view Gothic art and architecture.

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An illuminating scholarly examination of how Gothic cathedral architecture and sacred art fundamentally reshaped visual culture in medieval Europe.

EAN

9780226706061

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1 September 2008

Pages

392

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