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Download or read book Paris written by Alexandra Gajewski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal, monastic and secular – that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well as Paris’s chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis, built 1140–44, and a valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian Order in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also, the book investigates the relationships between manuscript illuminators in the 14th century and representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle Ages.
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.
Book Synopsis The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy by : Meredith Cohen
Download or read book The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy written by Meredith Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Lithic Garden by : Mailan S. Doquang
Download or read book The Lithic Garden written by Mailan S. Doquang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lithic Garden offers innovative perspectives on the role of ornament in medieval church design. Focusing on the foliate friezes articulating iconic French monuments such as Amiens Cathedral, it demonstrates that church builders strategically used organic motifs to integrate the interior and exterior of their structures, thus reinforcing the connections and distinctions between the entirety of the sacred edifice and the profane world beyond its boundaries. With this exquisitely illustrated monograph, Mailan S. Doquang argues that, contrary to widespread belief, monumental flora was not just an extravagant embellishment or secondary byproduct, but a semantically-charged, critical design component that inflected the stratified spaces of churches in myriad ways. By situating the proliferation of foliate friezes within the context of the Crusades, The Lithic Garden provides insights into the networks of exchange between France, Byzantium, and the Levant, contributing to the "global turn" in art and architectural History.
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.
Book Synopsis The North Transept of Reims Cathedral by : Jennifer M. Feltman
Download or read book The North Transept of Reims Cathedral written by Jennifer M. Feltman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume in the AVISTA series is the first book to focus solely on the north transept of Reims Cathedral, the portion of the gothic building that served as the canons' primary entrance to the cathedral from their adjoining cloister in the thirteenth century. Despite the importance of its sculpture and stained glass, as well as its ritual use by the canons, the north transept remains one of the least understood portions of the cathedral--in part because its sequence of construction is so complex, even improvised. Until recently, important archaeological evidence of the transept's substructures was unavailable. This is, however, no longer the case. The current volume presents this new subterranean evidence alongside careful studies of the stones above ground, analysis of the geometry used in the transept's design, iconographic and stylistic studies of its sculpture and glass, and extant medieval documents, which record events bearing upon its construction. Essays by international specialists of the cathedral's archaeology, architecture, sculpture, and stained glass address issues of the north transept's evolving design and visual programs, thereby significantly clarifying and revising the building's chronology. Essays also consider the meaning of its visual programs in light of architectural adaptation and contemporary socio-historical events--whether royal coronations or the infamous revolts of the local burghers. In addition to presenting a readily accessible state of the research on the north transept, the volume also provides a model for interdisciplinary and international collaboration in the study of medieval buildings.
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.
Download or read book T'oung-pao written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution of 1848 in Its Economic Aspect by : Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Download or read book The French Revolution of 1848 in Its Economic Aspect written by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Modern French Method by : Joseph D. Gaillard
Download or read book The Modern French Method written by Joseph D. Gaillard and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revue Internationale de Sinologie by : Henri Cordier
Download or read book Revue Internationale de Sinologie written by Henri Cordier and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all aspects of traditional China.
Book Synopsis Grand Paris métropole douce by : Finn Geipel
Download or read book Grand Paris métropole douce written by Finn Geipel and published by Editions Beauchesne. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Le passé dans la ville by : Dany Sandron
Download or read book Le passé dans la ville written by Dany Sandron and published by PU Paris-Sorbonne. This book was released on 2016 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comment nos ancêtres se représentaient l'histoire de leur ville ? Depuis l'émergence, au XIXe siècle, des concepts de monuments historiques et d'héritage, la présence du passé dans nos villes a avant tout été analysée sous l'angle du patrimoine, voire de son affrontement avec la modernité. Ces empreintes nous permettent certes de retracer l'histoire de la fabrique des villes. Mais, plus encore, ce passé se fait source d'identité et de légitimation pour les générations ultérieures. Du Moyen Âge à nos jours, les différents pouvoirs, les architectes et les habitants, en rapport direct avec les monuments et les structures des époques antérieures, repensent leur héritage, et permettent de dévoiler cette autre facette de l'histoire urbaine, où l'imagination se heurte au réel. Sur plus d'un millénaire, l'étude proposée dans cet ouvrage dépasse la simple observation des marques du passé dans la ville : les auteurs mettent ici en exergue sa manipulation par les générations ultérieures, soucieuses de perpétuer ou de détourner des usages et des spécificités de la topographie et la parure monumentale de la cité héritée du passé. Les phénomènes de remplois et de reconversions sont analysés dans les moindres détails, avec l'objectif de mettre en évidence des tendances de fond du développement urbain dans une perspective diachronique."--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Bulletins Et Mémoires de la Société Médicale Des Hôpitaux de Paris by :
Download or read book Bulletins Et Mémoires de la Société Médicale Des Hôpitaux de Paris written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International review of sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genie Civil written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
