Ball Philip:
Universe Of Stone
Chartres Cathedral And The Triumph Of The Medieval Mind
Vintage (United Kingdom), 2008
Hardback, 336 pages
Size: 242x164 mm
ISBN: 9780224078634
ISBN-10: 0224078631
List price: £20.00
You save: 30%
Universe Of Stone
In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - not the squat, gloomy buildings we call Romanesque, but soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows. This book explains the genesis and development of the Gothic style.
