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The Lithic Garden - Nature and the Transformation of the Medieval Church (Hardcover)
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The Lithic Garden - Nature and the Transformation of the Medieval Church (Hardcover)
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The Lithic Garden offers innovative perspectives on the role of
ornament in medieval church design. Focusing on the foliate friezes
articulating iconic French monuments such as Amiens Cathedral, it
demonstrates that church builders strategically used organic motifs
to integrate the interior and exterior of their structures, thus
reinforcing the connections and distinctions between the entirety
of the sacred edifice and the profane world beyond its boundaries.
With this exquisitely illustrated monograph, Mailan S. Doquang
argues that, contrary to widespread belief, monumental flora was
not just an extravagant embellishment or secondary byproduct, but a
semantically-charged, critical design component that inflected the
stratified spaces of churches in myriad ways. By situating the
proliferation of foliate friezes within the context of the
Crusades, The Lithic Garden provides insights into the networks of
exchange between France, Byzantium, and the Levant, contributing to
the "global turn" in art and architectural History.
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