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The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order. Expanded Edition
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #65253 in Books
- Published on: 1988-07-01
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .90" h x 5.48" w x 8.44" l, .96 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 364 pages
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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
