Gothic Art (5 February, 2014)
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Gothic Art is a book that introduces to you, in words and pictures, how Gothic art and architecture developed. I am not that into the art, but I am quite interested in Gothic architecture.
I wanted to learn how to identify the various architectural styles. This book introduces the history of Gothic architecture (and art), how it spreads from France to Britain, down the Iberian peninsula and to Germany. We get to see the various churches and cathedrals built in the Gothic style, among them the Abbey of Saint-Denis in Paris, the famous Notre-Dame in Paris, the Notre-Dame in Chartes, Westminster Abbey, Cologne Cathedral, among others. As you go through them one by one, you become familiar with what to look at, to understand the fine points of this style of architecture.
This is just one of five architecture-related books that I have lined up to read. The other four are waiting in queue.
Details
Title: Gothic Art (Visual Encyclopedia of Art)
Author: Federica Bustreo (text and picture research)
ISBN: 978-88-8117-806-3
Publisher: Scala
Year of First Publication: 2010
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