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- catalog abstract ""This 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. This book is a history - a view of things created, and more than that, an analysis of the essence of the Gothic style and of the ideas that inspired its development."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12179497.
- catalog contributor b12179498.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This 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. This book is a history - a view of things created, and more than that, an analysis of the essence of the Gothic style and of the ideas that inspired its development."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "11. Spiral shafts. Double-curved ribs. Concave profiles. Concave-sided arches. Arches like branches of trees. Diamond-vaults -- Continuous recession -- The gothic style and the style of the renaissance -- The survival of the gothic style. -- Part Two: The general problems of the gothic style. The term 'gothic' and the concept of the gothic style -- The development of the gothic style seen as an immanent pgocess -- The meaning and the purpose of church architecture -- Symbols of meaning -- Form symbols -- Gothic architecture considered as art -- Secular architecture during the period of the gothic style -- Gothic sculpture -- Gothic painting -- The gothic style and scholasticism -- The root of the gothic style.".
- catalog description "Façades. doors. Blind arcades and tracery. The elimination of capitals -- The tierceron star-vault -- The spread of the gothic style, 1200-50 -- Regularity of structure. Piers with grooves. Triradials -- The sharpening of profiles. Piers without capitals. The ogee curve -- Autonomous tracery -- The gothic wall -- The culmination of the high gothic style -- The spread of the gothic style, 1250-1320 -- The late gothic style -- New varieties of ribs. Liernes. Net-vaults -- Curvilinear and rectilinear -- The relaxation of strict regularity. Hall-choirs -- Pendant bosses. Flying ribs. Net-vaults with interrupted ribs. Concave-sided gables. Choirs with an even number of sides -- The fan-vault -- The spread of the gothic style in the late gothic period -- The beginnings of the flamboyant -- Variations between 1390 and 1420 -- The mature late gothic style in Germany -- The mature flamboyant -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-397) and index.".
- catalog description "Part One: The history of gothic architecture. Introduction. The aesthetic function of the rib -- The stylistic significance of the rib-vault -- The transition. The gothic rib-vaults of the first generation (1093-1120) -- Diagonality of ahafts, multipartite vaults, pointed arches, keystones -- The ridge-rib -- Vaults with arched ridges -- The early gothic period. The beginnings of the gothic structural system -- Changes in capitals and bases -- The exposed flying buttress -- Façades, towers, gables, tabernacles -- Hall-churches -- The early gothic style in the Cistercian Order -- The spread of the early gothic style and the passive transition -- The tierceron -- The high gothic style, 1194-1300. The organic unification of interior and exterior. Finials and balustrades -- The high gothic pier. Tracery. Gargoyles -- Horizontal fusion in England and Spain -- Glazed triforia. Windows and their gables. The spherical triangle. Cusps in tracery -- ".
- catalog extent "408 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300087985 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0300087993 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Yale University Press Pelican history of art".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog subject "726.5/094/0902 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Gothic Europe.".
- catalog subject "Church architecture Europe.".
- catalog subject "NA5453 .C77 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "11. Spiral shafts. Double-curved ribs. Concave profiles. Concave-sided arches. Arches like branches of trees. Diamond-vaults -- Continuous recession -- The gothic style and the style of the renaissance -- The survival of the gothic style. -- Part Two: The general problems of the gothic style. The term 'gothic' and the concept of the gothic style -- The development of the gothic style seen as an immanent pgocess -- The meaning and the purpose of church architecture -- Symbols of meaning -- Form symbols -- Gothic architecture considered as art -- Secular architecture during the period of the gothic style -- Gothic sculpture -- Gothic painting -- The gothic style and scholasticism -- The root of the gothic style.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Façades. doors. Blind arcades and tracery. The elimination of capitals -- The tierceron star-vault -- The spread of the gothic style, 1200-50 -- Regularity of structure. Piers with grooves. Triradials -- The sharpening of profiles. Piers without capitals. The ogee curve -- Autonomous tracery -- The gothic wall -- The culmination of the high gothic style -- The spread of the gothic style, 1250-1320 -- The late gothic style -- New varieties of ribs. Liernes. Net-vaults -- Curvilinear and rectilinear -- The relaxation of strict regularity. Hall-choirs -- Pendant bosses. Flying ribs. Net-vaults with interrupted ribs. Concave-sided gables. Choirs with an even number of sides -- The fan-vault -- The spread of the gothic style in the late gothic period -- The beginnings of the flamboyant -- Variations between 1390 and 1420 -- The mature late gothic style in Germany -- The mature flamboyant -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part One: The history of gothic architecture. Introduction. The aesthetic function of the rib -- The stylistic significance of the rib-vault -- The transition. The gothic rib-vaults of the first generation (1093-1120) -- Diagonality of ahafts, multipartite vaults, pointed arches, keystones -- The ridge-rib -- Vaults with arched ridges -- The early gothic period. The beginnings of the gothic structural system -- Changes in capitals and bases -- The exposed flying buttress -- Façades, towers, gables, tabernacles -- Hall-churches -- The early gothic style in the Cistercian Order -- The spread of the early gothic style and the passive transition -- The tierceron -- The high gothic style, 1194-1300. The organic unification of interior and exterior. Finials and balustrades -- The high gothic pier. Tracery. Gargoyles -- Horizontal fusion in England and Spain -- Glazed triforia. Windows and their gables. The spherical triangle. Cusps in tracery -- ".
- catalog title "Gothic architecture / Paul Frankl ; revised by Paul Crossley.".
- catalog type "text".