Gothic Art Saves Lives
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Gothic Art Saves Lives
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Author : Toni Jo Coppa
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Gothic Art Saves Lives written by Toni Jo Coppa and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Gothic Art
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Author : Jessica Gunderson
language : en
Publisher: The Creative Company
Release Date : 2008-07
Gothic Art written by Jessica Gunderson and has been published by The Creative Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Presents an introduction to Gothic Art, describing the art movement's basic tenets, how and when it started, and its most significant artists.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
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Author : Paul Elie
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2004-03-10
The Life You Save May Be Your Own written by Paul Elie and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common." A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.
Gothic Art
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Author : Victoria Charles
language : en
Publisher: Parkstone International
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Gothic Art written by Victoria Charles and has been published by Parkstone International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Art categories.
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that developed all across Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving Roman roundish forms behind, the architects started using flying buttress and pointed arches to open cathedrals to the daylight. Period of great economic and social changes, the gothic period also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, at the opposite to the fearful iconography of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all the different arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), gothic gave way to the Italian renaissance and international gothic.
Gothic Art
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Author : Victoria Charles
language : en
Publisher: Parkstone International
Release Date : 2014-05-10
Gothic Art written by Victoria Charles and has been published by Parkstone International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with Art categories.
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open up cathedrals to daylight. A period of great economic and social change, the Gothic era also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary – in drastic contrast to the fearful themes of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all of the various art forms (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), Gothic art paved the way for the Italian Renaissance and International Gothic movement.
Gothic Art
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Author : Michael Camille
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1996
Gothic Art written by Michael Camille and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.
When we look at the soaring spaces of Chartres cathedral or the shimmering pages of a gilded and painted manuscript, we are witnesses to a new kind of vision. In this radical reappraisal of Gothic art in Europe, the word "Gothic" describes not only an art style but a changing concept of space, time, and society - a new kind of perception, both visual and spiritual, in which light is of central importance. Camille shows us how the art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was seen in its own time and explores the way vision itself was understood. In this age of glorious painting, magnificent, intricate architecture and sculpture, and jewellike manuscript illumination, art was an expression of religious passion and earthly power, of public and private wealth; of science and learning. The new vision led to an explosion of brilliant images but had its grim side, rarely noticed by art history: the distorted representation of "others" like Jews, heretics, and lepers; a new vision not only of the marvelous, but also of the grotesque.
How To Recognize Gothic Art
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Author : Maria Cristina Gozzoli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
How To Recognize Gothic Art written by Maria Cristina Gozzoli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Art, Gothic categories.
Architecture - Sculpture - Applied arts - Painting.
Gothic Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Gothic Art written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Art, Gothic categories.
Gothic Art
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Author : Florens Deuchler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Gothic Art written by Florens Deuchler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Art categories.
Saving The Light At Chartres
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Author : Victor A. Pollak
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-03-16
Saving The Light At Chartres written by Victor A. Pollak and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-16 with History categories.
Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization. How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass (today the largest such collection in one location) survived World War II’s widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Saving the Light at Chartres begins half a decade before World War II, when a young French architect developed a plan to save the cathedral’s precious stained glass. As war engulfed Europe in the fall of 1939, master glass artisans dismantled the hundreds of windows, and soldiers, tradesmen, and laborers with local volunteers crated thousands of glass panels, stowed them in the crypt, and months later—just before German invaders reached Chartres—hauled them across the country to an underground quarry. This effort to save the stained glass is but a prologue. By August 1944, the U.S. Army had broken out of Normandy and was racing across France toward Paris and the Seine. Chartres became a key battleground. Allied bombing blew out the cathedral’s temporary window coverings, and when the Americans—assisted by French Resistance fighters—entered the city in the face of unexpectedly heavy defiance and snipers in the cathedral, many soldiers believed German artillery spotters were occupying the cathedral’s spires. When Colonel Welborn Griffith Jr.—a senior operations officer of Twentieth Corps in Patton’s Third Army—arrived, some were pressing to countermand the army’s standing order to avoid the cathedral and threatened to destroy it to neutralize the German spotters. Griffith was skeptical. He inspected the cathedral himself, climbed its towers, but found no Germans, so he rang the bell, waved an American flag, and ordered that the cathedral be spared, saving it from destruction. Griffith would be killed later that day. Victor Pollak tells both stories—the rescue of the windows and Colonel Griffith’s fateful role—in a compelling narrative. Saving the Light at Chartres honors the government and local teams who saved the windows, the Resistance that performed a vital role in the liberation of Chartres, Welborn Griffith, and the enduring treasure that is Chartres Cathedral.