Building Troyes Cathedral

Download Building Troyes Cathedral full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Building Troyes Cathedral ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Building Troyes Cathedral

Author : Stephen Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Building Troyes Cathedral by : Stephen Murray

Download or read book Building Troyes Cathedral written by Stephen Murray and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through a unique correlation of contemporary documents and architectural analysis, Stephen Murray provides a rich and unusual history of the building of the late Gothic cathedral at Troyes. From what sources were the funds obtained? How were decisions made about construction methods and style? What problems did the builders face and how were they solved? To what extent did individual stone carvers leave their imprint? Murray's narrative is based on thorough study of the fabric, or building, accounts kept by the cathedral for more than 250 years, actual records of receipts and expenses - from whom money was obtained, to whom it was paid, and for what purposes. Part One traces the progress of the building from the early thirteenth through the mid-sixteenth century, highlighting the contributions of individual master masons. Part Two provides written and visual records. A substantial selection of texts from the fabric accounts, chronologically arranged, is given both in the original language and in English translation; these rare documents furnish a wealth of information relating to the identity and skills of the artisans, the definition of the work at hand, and the techniques of construction. A series of charts analyzes the state of fabric fund and the composition of the workshop at critical stages in the construction process. Readers can follow the development of the cathedral by relating the text to the 120 detailed architectural drawings and photographs included." --

The Analysis of Gothic Architecture

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004529330
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Analysis of Gothic Architecture by :

Download or read book The Analysis of Gothic Architecture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume reflect on and build on the remarkable legacies of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon, who pioneered the application of high-technology research methods to the study of Gothic architecture.

The Gothic Enterprise

Author : Robert A. Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949560
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Gothic Enterprise by : Robert A. Scott

Download or read book The Gothic Enterprise written by Robert A. Scott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. As a traveler’s companion or a rich source of knowledge for the armchair enthusiast, The Gothic Enterprise helps us understand how ordinary people managed such tremendous feats of physical and creative energy at a time when technology was rudimentary, famine and disease were rampant, the climate was often harsh, and communal life was unstable and incessantly violent. While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, The Gothic Enterprise considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. Scott discusses why an impoverished people would commit so many social and personal resources to building something so physically stupendous and what this says about their ideas of the sacred, especially the vital role they ascribed to the divine as a protector against the dangers of everyday life. Scott’s narrative offers a wealth of fascinating details concerning daily life during medieval times. The author describes the difficulties master-builders faced in scheduling construction that wouldn’t be completed during their own lifetimes, how they managed without adequate numeric systems or paper on which to make detailed drawings, and how climate, natural disasters, wars, variations in the hours of daylight throughout the year, and the celebration of holy days affected the pace and timing of work. Scott also explains such things as the role of relics, the quarrying and transporting of stone, and the incessant conflict cathedral-building projects caused within their communities. Finally, by drawing comparisons between Gothic cathedrals and other monumental building projects, such as Stonehenge, Scott expands our understanding of the human impulses that shape our landscape.

Plotting Gothic

Author : Stephen Murray
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619194X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Plotting Gothic by : Stephen Murray

Download or read book Plotting Gothic written by Stephen Murray and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the churches, a social plot stemming from the collaborative efforts that made Gothic output possible, and a rhetorical plot involving narratives that treat the churches as objects of desire. Drawing on the testimony of three witnesses involved in church building—Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Gervase of Canterbury, and the image maker Villard de Honnecourt—and a range of secondary sources, Murray traces common patterns in the way medieval buildings were represented in words and images. Our witnesses provide vital information about the way the great churches of Gothic were built and the complexity of their meanings. Taking a fresh approach to Gothic architecture, Plotting Gothic offers an invigorating new way to understand some of the most lasting achievements of the medieval era.

The Story of the Art of Building

Author : Percy Leslie Waterhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Story of the Art of Building by : Percy Leslie Waterhouse

Download or read book The Story of the Art of Building written by Percy Leslie Waterhouse and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195395360
Total Pages : 4064 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture by : Colum Hourihane

Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture written by Colum Hourihane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.

A History of Architecture

Author : Russell Sturgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A History of Architecture by : Russell Sturgis

Download or read book A History of Architecture written by Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Notre-Dame of Amiens

Author : Stephen Murray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551479
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Notre-Dame of Amiens by : Stephen Murray

Download or read book Notre-Dame of Amiens written by Stephen Murray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time. Murray tells the cathedral’s story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral’s eight hundredth anniversary. Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.

Riemenschneider in Rothenburg

Author : Katherine M. Boivin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090014
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Riemenschneider in Rothenburg by : Katherine M. Boivin

Download or read book Riemenschneider in Rothenburg written by Katherine M. Boivin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the modern imagination, conjuring visions of fortified walls, towering churches, and winding streets. In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg, Katherine M. Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning and artistic programming worked together to form dynamic environments, demonstrating the agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping the late medieval city. Using altarpieces by the famed medieval artist Tilman Riemenschneider as touchstones for her argument, Boivin explores how artwork in Germany’s preeminent medieval city, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, deliberately propagated civic ideals. She argues that the numerous artistic pieces commissioned by the city’s elected council over the course of two centuries built upon one another, creating a cohesive structural network that attracted religious pilgrims and furthered the theological ideals of the parish church. By contextualizing some of Rothenburg’s most significant architectural and artistic works, such as St. James’s Church and Riemenschneider’s Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Boivin shows how the city government employed these works to establish a local aesthetic that awed visitors, raising Rothenburg’s profile and putting it on the pilgrimage map of Europe. Carefully documented and convincingly argued, this book sheds important new light on the history of one of Germany’s major tourist destinations. It will be of considerable interest to medieval art historians and scholars working in the fields of cultural and urban history.

A History of Architecture: Gothic in Great Britain, Renaissance, Modern architecture

Author : Russell Sturgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A History of Architecture: Gothic in Great Britain, Renaissance, Modern architecture by : Russell Sturgis

Download or read book A History of Architecture: Gothic in Great Britain, Renaissance, Modern architecture written by Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture

Author : Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538461
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture by : Alice Isabella Sullivan

Download or read book Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture written by Alice Isabella Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.

Ad Quadratum

Author : Nancy Y. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351960857
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ad Quadratum by : Nancy Y. Wu

Download or read book Ad Quadratum written by Nancy Y. Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the project is to provide the most up-to-date survey on issues dealing with practical geometry and how it might have been applied in the design of medieval architecture. Chronologically, the topics cover a wide span - from early Medieval through Late Gothic. Geographically, the monuments under discussion range from Early Medieval Florence through Carolingian Germany, Crusader Cyprus, Romanesque France and Gothic England. The applications of both geometry and metrology are considered in this volume, often with illustrations generated by computer-assisted design (CAD) software. The project therefore offers recent scholarship in the field, as well as cutting-edge technology which helps propel the pursuit of such studies. To this end, the project is the first of its kind both in terms of its focus and its comprehensiveness. Such a project is sorely needed to introduce this highly specialized discipline to other historians of art, history, and science of the Middle Ages, as well as historians in most humanistic areas.

Masons and Sculptors

Author : Nicola Coldstream
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802069160
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Masons and Sculptors by : Nicola Coldstream

Download or read book Masons and Sculptors written by Nicola Coldstream and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the building of cathedrals and castles by medieval masons and examines their work as represented in architectural drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and buildings that remain standing today

A Companion to Medieval Art

Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119077729
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Companion to Medieval Art by : Conrad Rudolph

Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Art written by Conrad Rudolph and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.

Medieval Urban Planning

Author : Mickey Abel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878650
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Medieval Urban Planning by : Mickey Abel

Download or read book Medieval Urban Planning written by Mickey Abel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, political, and social implications, as well as the environmental impact. This collection of essays explores the question of whether this sort of multifaceted planning took place in the Middle Ages, and how it manifested itself outside of the monastic realm. Bringing together the monastic historian and archaeologist, with scholars of art and architecture, this volume expands our comprehension of how those in roles of authority saw the planning process and implemented their plans to structure a particular outcome. The examination of architectural complexes, literary sources, commercial legers, and political records highlights the multiple avenues for viewing the growing awareness of the social potential of an urban environment.

Gothic Architecture

Author : Paul Frankl
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300087994
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gothic Architecture by : Paul Frankl

Download or read book Gothic Architecture written by Paul Frankl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe. Ranging geographically from Poland to Portugal and from Sicily to Scotland and chronologically from 1093 to 1530, the book analyzes changes from Romanesque to Gothic as well as the evolution within the Gothic style and places these changes in the context of the creative spirit of the Middle Ages. In its breadth of outlook, its command of detail, and its theoretical enterprise, Frankl's book has few equals in the ambitious Pelican History of Art series. It is single-minded in its pursuit of the general principles that informed all aspects of Gothic architecture and its culture. In this edition Paul Crossley has revised the original text to take into account the proliferation of recent literature--books, reviews, exhibition catalogues, and periodicals--that have emerged in a variety of languages. New illustrations have also been included.

The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004529101
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments by :

Download or read book The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the past, present, and future of studies on medieval technology, art, and craft practices. Inspired by Villard’s enigmatic portfolio of artistic and engineering drawings, this collection explores the multiple facets of medieval building represented in this manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093). The book’s eighteen essays and two introductions showcase traditional and emergent methods for the study of medieval craft, demonstrating how these diverse approaches collectively amplify our understanding about how medieval people built, engineered, and represented their world. Contributions range from the analysis of words and images in Villard’s portfolio, to the close analysis of masonry, technological marvels, and gothic architecture, pointing the way toward new avenues for future scholarship to explore. Contributors are: Mickey Abel, Carl F. Barnes Jr., Robert Bork, George Brooks, Michael T. Davis, Amy Gillette, Erik Gustafson, Maile S. Hutterer, John James, William Sayers, Ellen Shortell, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Richard Alfred Sundt, Sarah Thompson, Steven A. Walton, Maggie M. Williams, Kathleen Wilson Ruffo, and Nancy Wu.