The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order (Bollingen Series) - Softcover

Otto Von Simson

 
9780691018676: The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order (Bollingen Series)

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About the Author

Otto Georg von Simson (1912–1993) was professor emeritus of art history at the Free University of Berlin. His books include Sacred Fortress: Byzantine Art and Statecraft in Ravenna (Princeton).

From the Back Cover

This essay seeks to understand Gothic architecture as an image, more precisely, as the representation of supernatural reality. To those who designed the cathedrals, as to their contemporaries who worshiped in them, this symbolic aspect or function of sacred architecture overshadowed all others. To us, it has become the least comprehensible.

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