High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens

Palmes, James, Jantzen, Hans

This engaging study introduces the reader to one of the greatest achievements of Western art: the climactic phase of Gothic architecture in the first half of the thirteenth century. Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characterizes the different parts of the Gothic cathedral and describes the human context of the three great buildings.

EAN

9780691003726

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

21 March 1984

Pages

232