ChartresHarper & Row, 1983 - 189 pages |
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... architect of Chartres broke with his past , and resolutely embarked on a forward looking project . First he abandoned the sexpartite vault based on a square ground plan , and replaced it with a vault which had a simple intersection of ...
... architect of Chartres broke with his past , and resolutely embarked on a forward looking project . First he abandoned the sexpartite vault based on a square ground plan , and replaced it with a vault which had a simple intersection of ...
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... architect to envisage , in 1194 , a vault more than sixteen metres wide , suspended from a height of 37 metres . It was the most formidable problem tackled by any cathedral builder to date . The remaining problem was to resist the ...
... architect to envisage , in 1194 , a vault more than sixteen metres wide , suspended from a height of 37 metres . It was the most formidable problem tackled by any cathedral builder to date . The remaining problem was to resist the ...
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... architect clearly did not invent everything , and when the occasion presented itself , he did not hesitate to borrow ... architect of Reims cathedral used it as inspiration for his façade and his towers , the architect at Amiens did ...
... architect clearly did not invent everything , and when the occasion presented itself , he did not hesitate to borrow ... architect of Reims cathedral used it as inspiration for his façade and his towers , the architect at Amiens did ...
Table des matières
PREFACE | 5 |
Origins of the art of Chartres The work of Suger at SaintDenis | 16 |
tympanum and voussoirs | 30 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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ambulatory Amiens angels Annunciation Apocalypse apostles appears apse architect architecture arms artists bas-reliefs beautiful beneath bishop capitals Castile central bay central portal Charlemagne Chartres cathedral Chartres portals choir Christ church Column figure Confessors crown crypt decorated depicted donors drapery feet flying buttresses Gothic grandeur heavens Holy Tunic imitated Jean king Laon Laon cathedral Last Judgment Left bay legend lintel magnificent martyrs masterpiece metres Middle Ages nave North porch Notre-Dame de Chartres Notre-Dame in Paris Old Testament original pillars Portail Royal prophets Queen recognised Reims cathedral reliquary represented revealed right bay rose window Saint Eustace Saint James Saint Martin Saint Nicholas Saint Peter Saint-Denis scenes sculpted sculptors seen Senlis side aisles South portal spire stained glass stained glass windows statuettes steeples story style Suger symbol tall statues thirteenth century three portals transept tree of Jesse Triumph twelfth century tympanum vaults Virgin portal voussoirs west façade XIIe siècle