The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order
The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order
Princeton University Press | 1974 | ISBN: 0691097410, 0691017891 | English | 352 pages | PDF | 51.7 MB
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.