GOTHIC SCULPTURE 1140-1300 by Paul Williamson ( 9780300063387 )

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Title:

GOTHIC SCULPTURE 1140-1300

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0300063385

ISBN 13:

9780300063387

Publisher:

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 October, 1995

Series:

The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series

Pages:

320

Description:

The study examines the development of Gothic sculpture throughout Europe. It discusses the most famous monuments, such as the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens and Reims, Westminster Abbey and the Siena Duomo, but also less familiar buildings in France, England, Italy, Germany, Spain and Scandinavia.

Synopsis:

This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine the development of Gothic sculpture throughout Europe. It discusses not only the most famous monuments-such as the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens, and Reims, Westminster Abbey, and the Siena Duomo-but also less familiar buildings in France, England, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia. Paul Williamson begins by setting the sculptures of the cathedrals in their social context. He then focuses on the working methods of the sculptors, illustrating the stages of making Gothic sculpture with a number of previously unpublished examples. Moving from country to country, Williamson traces the transition from Romanesque to Early Gothic style and then examines the flowering of "mature" Gothic in the early thirteenth century and in the less well-known sculptures of the last half of the thirteenth century. Throughout, he includes descriptions of wood sculpture, so often neglected by others, and he sheds new light on figures and reliefs in bronze and ivory.A synthesis of new research, interpretations, methodologies, and insights that have evolved over the last twenty years, the text is accompanied by hundreds of illustrations, including many photographs taken specially for the book. Together the text and illustrations provide a strikingly beautiful and authoritative survey for students and the general reader.

Illustrations:

261 b-w + 125 color illus.

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Imprint:

Yale University Press

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