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Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central
role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of
2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this quintessential
French monument are once more at the forefront. This
all-too-prescient book, first published in French in 2013, takes a
central place in the conversation. The Gothic cathedral par
excellence, Notre Dame set the architectural bar in the competitive
years of the third quarter of the twelfth century and dazzled the
architects and aesthetes of the Enlightenment with its structural
ingenuity. In the nineteenth century, the cathedral became the
touchstone of a movement to restore medieval patrimony to its
rightful place at the cultural heart of France: it was transformed
into a colossal laboratory in which architects Jean-Baptiste Lassus
and Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc anatomized structures,
dismembered them, put them back, or built them anew-all the while
documenting their work with scientific precision. Taking as their
point of departure a three-dimensional laser scan of the cathedral
created in 2010, architectural historians Dany Sandron and the late
Andrew Tallon tell the story of the construction and reconstruction
of Notre Dame in visual terms. With over a billion points of data,
the scan supplies a highly accurate spatial map of the building,
which is anatomized and rebuilt virtually. Fourteen double-page
images represent the cathedral at specific points in time, while
the accompanying text sets out the history of the building,
addressing key topics such as the fundraising campaign, the
construction of the vaults, and the liturgical function of the
choir. Featuring 170 full-color illustrations and elegantly
translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook, Notre Dame Cathedral
is an enlightening history of one of the world's most treasured
architectural achievements.
The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey
church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and
Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory
of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache's career,
both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of
bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus
the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both
academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of
the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture,
reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long
career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to
explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section
include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of
Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text
for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the
medieval use of practical geometry in designing entire buildings
and their components. Saint-Denis, Reims, and Chartres, all
monuments studied by Prache, are discussed in the next part, on
stained glass. These chapters demonstrate how old problems can be
clarified by new evidence, whether from the accessibility of
previously unknown archival information, for Reims, or through
revelations that arise from restoration, at Chartres. These essays
also include a study showing the complexity of making attributions
for the storied glass of Saint-Denis. The final set of essays
likewise takes different approaches to sculpture, whether
constructing links to the liturgy at Reims, or discussing the
meaning of a sculptural ensemble studied by Prache early in her
career, the cloister of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux in
ChAclons-en-Champagne, or scrupulously examining the faAade
sculpture at Bourges Cathedral for insights into the design
process. As a whole, the volume provides a window onto key
directions in the study of
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