High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens

By Hans Jantzen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691003726
• ISBN13: 9780691003726
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"