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Believing and Seeing - The Art of Gothic Cathedrals (Hardcover, New)
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Believing and Seeing - The Art of Gothic Cathedrals (Hardcover, New)
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Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the
other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis
on miracles, relics, and elaborate structures. In his incisive
survey of Gothic art and architecture, Roland Recht argues that
this preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge
profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works.
In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key
religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand
designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the
signs of scripture. Metalworkers, for example, fashioned intricate
monstrances and reliquaries for the presentation of sacred
articles, and technical advances in stained glass production
allowed for more expressive renderings of holy objects. Sculptors,
meanwhile, created increasingly naturalistic works and painters
used multihued palettes to enhance their subjects' lifelike
qualities. Reimagining these works as a link between devotional
practices in the late Middle Ages and contemporaneous theories that
deemed vision the basis of empirical truth, Recht provides students
and scholars with a new and powerful lens through which to view
Gothic art and architecture.
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