| Author/Contributor(s): | Jantzen, Hans |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Date: | 03/21/1984 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This engaging study introduces the reader to one of the greatest achievements of Western art: the climactic phase of Gothic architecture in the first half of the thirteenth century. Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characterizes the different parts of the Gothic cathedral and describes the human context of the three great buildings.