Read Gothic Architecture: A Complete History
Gothic was the first architectural system to span a continent: a way of building in which pointed arches, rib vaults and flying buttresses dissolved walls into light. This complete history follows it from Saint-Denis in 1140 to its decline, its Romantic revival and its living legacy in the cathedral workshops of today, teaching the reader, chapter by chapter, to recognise, date and understand the style anywhere in Europe.
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