Here is a beautiful book for someone who enjoys church architecture! There are European cathedrals in almost every architectural style, including Romanesque, Baroque and Renaissance. But it is the Gothic style, perfected during the Late Middle Ages, that has come to epitomize the essence of the continents truly great cathedrals. In this book, Schutz, an architectural historian at the University of Munich, explores the towering Gothic cathedrals of France, England, Spain, Italy and Germany, all nations of the former Holy Roman Empire. Bernhard Schutz explains the complex structure of Gothic design, in which the most imposing edifices are mere frameworks whose soaring lines appear to belie the laws of gravity. Schutzs text is strong on architectural detail but weak on the social upheavals and theological transformations that marked the centuries he describes. However, this is a very useful art book, complemented as it is by 310 photographs and illustrations, 270 of them in full color, many of them full-page. amazon/dp/0810932970/?tag=lifeverse-20
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:05:00 +0000
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