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Gothic art / Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl ; [translator, Andrea Hacker].
LIBRA N6310 .C43 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charles, Victoria.
- Series:
- Art of century collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Gothic.
- Art, Gothic--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Parkstone Press international, [2008]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic painting
- Gothic sculpture
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 194).
- ISBN:
- 9781844844616
- 1844844617
- OCLC:
- 166368227
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