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Author : Toni Jo Coppa
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300917823
Author : Victoria Charles,Klaus Carl
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781602249
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open up cathedrals to daylight. A period of great economic and social change, the Gothic era also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary – in drastic contrast to the fearful themes of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all of the various art forms (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), Gothic art paved the way for the Italian Renaissance and International Gothic movement.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781429923958
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common." A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.
Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583416102
Presents an introduction to Gothic Art, describing the art movement's basic tenets, how and when it started, and its most significant artists.
Author : Nicola Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art and mythology
ISBN : 0857759949
Gothic Art is a powerful new illustrated book, packed with inimate portraits of lonely vampires, winsome witches and stunning eerie visions. With digital and traditional paintings and photo art, and a fascinating discussion of the gothic, this is a must-have read for anyone interested in the slightly darker, anarchic side of art.
Author : Wayne Kalayjian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639365876
In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians to help, whose revolutionary ideas spark a chain of events that will change the world of architecture forever. 1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter’s Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the pride of Italy and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. And no one knows how to fix it. This engaging and colorful narrative tells the overlooked story of how Michelangelo’s Dome was saved from disaster by three mathematicians and Pope Benedict XIV, who had asked them for help. It is a gripping story of decisive leadership, crisis management, and scientific innovation, and the resistance that was faced when sailing into the headwinds of conventional thought. In Saving Michelangelo's Dome, Stanford-trained engineer Wayne Kalayjian illustrates how new ideas in science and mathematics established an entirely new way of looking at the world—as well as solving its complex problems. In the end, readers will appreciate that in saving Michelangelo’s Dome from collapse, these three mathematicians and one determined pope unknowingly invented the profession of engineering as we practice it today. With it, they transformed the architectural world and ushered in generations of future buildings and structures that, otherwise, would never have been built.
Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture, Gothic
ISBN : 0500252513
Crumbling ruins, undead fiends, dark alleys and forests teeming with horrors seen and unseen: the tendrils of the Gothic have crept out of the architecture of churches, mosques and grand houses and into suburban malls, overcrowded cities, the deserted corners of the world and beyond, taking the shape of monsters from Beowulf to Gojira, Cthulhu or the wendigo to our own terrifying, warped reflections. Across time, form and media, this book traces the weaving path of the Gothic from the shadows of history to the very heart of popular culture today. With over 350 illustrations
Author : Wayne Andrews
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814317197
A pictorial survey of Michigan architecture from 1831 to the present.
Author : Andrew Martindale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, Gothic
ISBN : OCLC:781998093
Author : Andrew Martindale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art, Gothic
ISBN : OCLC:1054960784
Author : Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Publisher : Ilex Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UCSC:32106019803839
Gathering artists from across the globe, this work showcases the Gothic world in its many and varied forms - from the conventional media of paint and pencil, to digital nightmares, abstract sculptures and provocative toys.
Author : Victor A. Pollak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811768979
Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization. How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass (today the largest such collection in one location) survived World War II’s widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Saving the Light at Chartres begins half a decade before World War II, when a young French architect developed a plan to save the cathedral’s precious stained glass. As war engulfed Europe in the fall of 1939, master glass artisans dismantled the hundreds of windows, and soldiers, tradesmen, and laborers with local volunteers crated thousands of glass panels, stowed them in the crypt, and months later—just before German invaders reached Chartres—hauled them across the country to an underground quarry. This effort to save the stained glass is but a prologue. By August 1944, the U.S. Army had broken out of Normandy and was racing across France toward Paris and the Seine. Chartres became a key battleground. Allied bombing blew out the cathedral’s temporary window coverings, and when the Americans—assisted by French Resistance fighters—entered the city in the face of unexpectedly heavy defiance and snipers in the cathedral, many soldiers believed German artillery spotters were occupying the cathedral’s spires. When Colonel Welborn Griffith Jr.—a senior operations officer of Twentieth Corps in Patton’s Third Army—arrived, some were pressing to countermand the army’s standing order to avoid the cathedral and threatened to destroy it to neutralize the German spotters. Griffith was skeptical. He inspected the cathedral himself, climbed its towers, but found no Germans, so he rang the bell, waved an American flag, and ordered that the cathedral be spared, saving it from destruction. Griffith would be killed later that day. Victor Pollak tells both stories—the rescue of the windows and Colonel Griffith’s fateful role—in a compelling narrative. Saving the Light at Chartres honors the government and local teams who saved the windows, the Resistance that performed a vital role in the liberation of Chartres, Welborn Griffith, and the enduring treasure that is Chartres Cathedral.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art, Gothic
ISBN : OCLC:2163980
Author : Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001488174
Author : Paul Frankl,Paul Crossley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300087993
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.