Gothic architecture

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"This study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe. Ranging geographically from Poland to Portugal and from Sicily to Scotland and chronologically from 1093 to 1530, the book analyzes changes from Romanesque to Gothic as well as the evolution within the Gothic style and places these changes in the context of the creative spirit of the Middle Ages. This book is a history - a view of things created, and more than that,…

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Title Statements

Full title :Gothic architecture / Paul Frankl ; revised by Paul Crossley.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2000
Edition:Revised edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2000

The Physical Object

Description:408 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 29 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0300087985, 9780300087987, 0300087993, 9780300087994
oclc:ocn959307942
LC Classification:NA440.
Dewey Decimal:726.5/094/0902

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…

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Architecture chrétienne -- Europe Architecture gothique -- Europe Architecture religieuse -- Europe Architecture, Gothic Architecture, Gothic -- Europe Architektur Arquitetura gótica Bouwkunst Church architecture Church architecture -- Europe Europe Gotiek Gotik Kirchenbau