Gothic art
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 o…
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- Full title :Gothic art / Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl ; [translator, Andrea Hacker].
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Parkstone Press International
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:199 pages : : color illustrations ; : 29 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781844844616, 1844844617
- oclc:ocn166368227
- LC Classification:N6310
- Dewey Decimal:709.022
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Gothic architecture -- Gothic painting -- Gothic sculpture -- Conclusion.
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