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The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order (Bollingen Series (General) (19)) by Simson, Otto Georg von, 1912- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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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- Author
- Simson, Otto Georg von, 1912-
- Publisher
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691017891
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Architecture, Art, Economics
Other editions & translations
- The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order (Bollingen Series (General)) (1956)
- The Gothic Cathedral : Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition (1988)
- The Gothic Cathedral : Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition (1956)
- The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition (Bollingen Series, 106) (1988)
- The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition (Bollingen Series Book 640) (1989)
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