| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
408 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Yale University Press Pelican history of art |
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Yale University Press Pelican history of art.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-397) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One: The history of gothic architecture. Introduction. The aesthetic function of the rib -- The stylistic significance of the rib-vault -- The transition. The gothic rib-vaults of the first generation (1093-1120) -- Diagonality of ahafts, multipartite vaults, pointed arches, keystones -- The ridge-rib -- Vaults with arched ridges -- The early gothic period. The beginnings of the gothic structural system -- Changes in capitals and bases -- The exposed flying buttress -- Façades, towers, gables, tabernacles -- Hall-churches -- The early gothic style in the Cistercian Order -- The spread of the early gothic style and the passive transition -- The tierceron -- The high gothic style, 1194-1300. The organic unification of interior and exterior. Finials and balustrades -- The high gothic pier. Tracery. Gargoyles -- Horizontal fusion in England and Spain -- Glazed triforia. Windows and their gables. The spherical triangle. Cusps in tracery -- Façades. doors. Blind arcades and tracery. The elimination of capitals -- The tierceron star-vault -- The spread of the gothic style, 1200-50 -- Regularity of structure. Piers with grooves. Triradials -- The sharpening of profiles. Piers without capitals. The ogee curve -- Autonomous tracery -- The gothic wall -- The culmination of the high gothic style -- The spread of the gothic style, 1250-1320 -- The late gothic style -- New varieties of ribs. Liernes. Net-vaults -- Curvilinear and rectilinear -- The relaxation of strict regularity. Hall-choirs -- Pendant bosses. Flying ribs. Net-vaults with interrupted ribs. Concave-sided gables. Choirs with an even number of sides -- The fan-vault -- The spread of the gothic style in the late gothic period -- The beginnings of the flamboyant -- Variations between 1390 and 1420 -- The mature late gothic style in Germany -- The mature flamboyant -- 11. Spiral shafts. Double-curved ribs. Concave profiles. Concave-sided arches. Arches like branches of trees. Diamond-vaults -- Continuous recession -- The gothic style and the style of the renaissance -- The survival of the gothic style. -- Part Two: The general problems of the gothic style. The term 'gothic' and the concept of the gothic style -- The development of the gothic style seen as an immanent pgocess -- The meaning and the purpose of church architecture -- Symbols of meaning -- Form symbols -- Gothic architecture considered as art -- Secular architecture during the period of the gothic style -- Gothic sculpture -- Gothic painting -- The gothic style and scholasticism -- The root of the gothic style. |
| Subject |
Church architecture -- Europe.
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Architecture, Gothic -- Europe.
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| Added Author |
Crossley, Paul, 1945-2019
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| ISBN |
0300087985 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780300087987 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300087993 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780300087994 paperback alkaline paper |
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