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Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

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Availability:In StockContributor:Philip BallPublish date:2009-07-28Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061154300ISBN-10:006115430XUPC:9780061154300Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, ReferenceBook Topic:Religious, MedievalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC40ZR9WQS

"A lively, open-ended study of the building of Chartres Cathedral. . . . Ball puts the fun back in medieval scholasticism." --Los Angeles Times

Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic?

In this eminently fascinating work, author Philip Ball makes sense of the visual and emotional power of Chartres and brilliantly explores how its construction--and the creation of other Gothic cathedrals--represented a profound and dramatic shift in the way medieval thinkers perceived their relationship with their world.

Beautifully illustrated and written, filled with astonishing insight, Universe of Stone embeds the magnificent cathedral in the culture of the twelfth century--its schools of philosophy and science, its trades and technologies, its politics and religious debates--enabling us to view this ancient architectural marvel with fresh eyes.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061154300ISBN-10:006115430XUPC:9780061154300Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, ReferenceBook Topic:Religious, MedievalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC40ZR9WQS
Ball, Philip: -

Philip Ball's book Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; his Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another won the UK's Aventis Prize. He is a consulting editor for Nature magazine, and he lives in London.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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