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The Gothic Cathedral
Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order
by Otto Georg Von Simson
ISBN: 0691018677
ISBN-13: 9780691018676
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published date: 1988
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Publisher's Notes
"The Gothic Cathedral is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date. . . . If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr. von Simson rightly declares, they must be seen not in the light of twentieth-century esthetic observation, but of twelfth-century religious experience, through which the supernatural permeated every aspect of human existence. . . . The resulting interpretation of the monuments is a critical tour de force." --Allan Temko, The New York Times Book Review "Not since Mont-St.-Michel and Chartres has so poetic and so evocative a study of the Gothic movement been published. . . . The Gothic Cathedral is based on a wide factual as well as intuitive knowledge, transformed by the author's illuminating style into a text both formidable and pleasurable."--The Virginia Quarterly Review
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The Gothic Cathedral
Otto Georg Von Simson
Princeton University Press, 1988-07-01. Paperback. Good. some underlining, otherwise very good ( more information) Offered by Read It Again Sam (United States)
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The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order [Bollingen Series 48]
Simson, Otto von
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989. 3rd ed., with additions, expanded. 8vo, paperback. Vg+ condition. Exterior very mildly smudged w/ slight crease at cover corner, contents bright, crisp & clean, unread. xxiii, 282 p., illus., 51 p. of plates. ( more information) Offered by Tiber Books (United States)
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THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL. Origins Of Gothic Architecture And The Medieval Concept Of Order
Von Simson, Otto
Princeton University Press:. First published in 1956, this book is the third edition, with additions (additional illustrations and a new section on rose windows) from 1988, 282 pages, illustrated. THis book is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by PASCALE'S BOOKS (United States)
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