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Medieval Church Architecture Sites that focus on what many consider the greatest achievements of medieval architecture: churches and cathedrals.
Gothic Architecture Websites offering images, terms, and background on the most recognizable medieval architectural style.
Gothic architecture goes on Gothic architecture reigned for 400 years, however by the end of the 1400s, other styles were favored. Architectural history with illustrations and resources.
Gothic Architecture - Windows and Gargoyles Since the walls themselves were no longer the primary supports, Gothic buildings could include large areas of glass. Architectural history with illustrations and resources.
New Ideas in Gothic Architecture New techniques of construction permitted Gothic buildings to soar to amazing new heights, dwarfing anyone who stepped inside. An architectural history with illustrations and resources.
Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes explores the influence of Puginian ideals on Australian architecture. (Radar Exhibition).
Public ritual in late medieval and Renaissance Florence was largely dependent on the cults of the city's patron saints, relics, and sacred images. (1) ......(Continue Reading) Art imitates architecture: the Saint Philip reliquary in Renaissance Florence
THE HISTORY OF STAINED GLASS: THE ART OF LIGHT MEDIEVAL TO CONTEMPORARY. By Virginia Chieffo Raguin. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. [pounds sterling]24.95 ......(Continue Reading)Transparent tapestries; The history of stained glass: the art of light medieval to contemporary
This essay seeks to animate the debate over the original form of the twelfth-century cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris. The problem is first located within ......(Continue Reading)Notre-Dame of Paris and the anticipation of Gothic
Charles Jencks suggests culture is transforming itself from the simple certainties of Modernism to a much more complex interpretation of reality based ......(Continue Reading)The new paradigm in architecture - Theory
The Georgian Parish Church: 'Monuments to Posterity' Terry Friedman Spire Books, Reading, 33.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 94536 15 3 9 Of late years ......(Continue Reading)
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