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Rose windows / Painton Cowen.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowen, Painton.
- Series:
- Art and imagination (New York, N.Y.)
- Art and imagination
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rose windows.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Glass painting and staining, Medieval.
- Cathedrals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [1979]
- Summary:
- Photographs and accompanying text describe the history and architectural achievements of various cathedral rose windows in Europe and the United States.
- Contents:
- Light into darkness. A present from the past ; A symbol of truth ; Queen of cathedrals
- The making. From wheels to roses and to flames ; The rose in the cathedral ; The glass in the rose
- The meaning. Purification: wisdom (The universe: turning to one ; From time to eternity: wheel and rose ; A key to nature ; Numbers and geometry of creation) ; Illumination: knowledge (The star ; Jewelled light) ; Union: love (The enlightening rose ; The rose and the grail ; The kingdom of the Spirit)
- Divine geometry. Geometrical schemes ; Creation ; Roses for the Queen of Heaven ; Revelation.
- Notes:
- "A Prism edition."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 142) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cowen, Painton. Rose windows.
- ISBN:
- 0877011214
- 9780877011217
- 0877011222
- 9780877011224
- OCLC:
- 4494422
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