Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic by Philip Ball

Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

Philip Ball

326 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction art history informative tense slow-paced
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Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--and why was it built at such imme...

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