Notre-Dame of Amiens - Life of the Gothic Cathedral

Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. In this beautifully illustrated magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray tells the cathedral's story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Visiting the Cathedral
2. The Portals: Unscrambling the Plot
3. Clergy, Artisans, and Laypeople: Makers and Users
4. Telling the Story of the Great Enterprise, I, 1220–c. 1300: Incomplete Completion
5. Telling the Story of the Great Enterprise, II, c. 1300–1530: Continuing Work, Immediate Danger, Triumphant End
6. Liturgical Performance: Angels in the Architecture
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Stephen Murray is Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History Emeritus at Columbia University. His books include Notre-Dame, Cathedral of Amiens: The Power of Change in Gothic (1996); A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens (2004); and Plotting Gothic (2015).

Summary

Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. In this beautifully illustrated magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray tells the cathedral’s story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it.

Additional text

Murray has done an excellent job of compiling an impressive amount of research into a readable and enjoyable book.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Murray, Stephen (Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor o Murray, Stephen (Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History Emeritus) Murray, Murray Stephen
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780231195768
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19576-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Columbiana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; France, Television, Gothic, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Amiens, Films, cinema, ARCHITECTURE / History / Medieval, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, History of Architecture, Religious buildings, Architecture: religious buildings, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299, ART / History / European / Medieval