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This book is based on the idea that every civilization is founded on a new ideal of man. In the case of the Gothic masters, they were the first artists to give visual form to the Christian idea of the worth of the individual soul. The author asserts that their view of man appears not only in the sculptures of Chartres and other churches, but also in the new spatial effects they created using the pointed arch and soaring vaults.

Erwin Panofksy was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century. Panofsky modestly described his second annual Wimmer Lecture at Saint Vincent College as "another diffident attempt at correlating Gothic architecture and scholasticism," but it has remained in print in numerous languages for more than half a century. His lecture stands as a brilliant man's tribute to the legacy of Christian humanism.

Covering the history of Gothic architecture from its origins in 12th-century France through its dissemination in all of Europe.

Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at how the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature.

Looks at the interaction between design and the requirements of patrons, follows the creative processes of architects, and discusses chronology, structural techniques, and stylistic developments.

French cathedrals and Gothic architecture. "The Gothic Cathedral is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date. . . . If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr. von Simson rightly declares, they must be seen not in the light of twentieth-century esthetic observation, but of twelfth-century religious experience, through which the supernatural permeated every aspect of human existence. . . . The resulting interpretation of...