Amiens, The Painted Cathedral, 1220-1270
Publisher
:
Perrin
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782262015756
Description
Built in the 13th century, the Amiens cathedral imposes itself with its great architectural coherence, making it perhaps the most accomplished gothic monument. The many architectural traces left by foreign influence form an exceptional cultural mosaic. Since 1992, a major restoration plan has begun to uncover the incredible and incomparable polychrome of its three front gates. This discovery and the large field of research it opened turned the cathedral into a laboratory for the study of gothic art in its relation to mankind, the city and the Middle Ages. In this volume, an historian, a writer and a photographer offer their own vision of this monument. Illustrations throughout.
Author
Jacques Goff : Jacques Le Goff is one of the world’s pre-eminent medieval historians. He is a founding member of the French “Annales” school and was until recently director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences socials. He is the author of, among other titles, The Birth of Purgatory, published here by University of Chicago in 1986, and History and Memory, Columbia University Press, 1996. His biography of Saint Francis of Assisi is recently out from Routledge.
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