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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.
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Art Library: Gothic
2004, Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
0297835203 9780297835202
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Gothic Art: Glorious Visions (Perspectives) (Trade Version)
April 1, 2003, Penguin (Non-Returnable)
Paperback
in English
013183312X 9780131833128
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Gothic Art: Glorious Visions (Perspectives) (Trade Version)
April 1, 2003, Penguin (Non-Returnable)
in English
013183312X 9780131833128
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Gothic Art: Glorious Visions
January 17, 2003, Not Avail
Paperback
in English
0131830600 9780131830608
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Gothic art: visions and revelations of the medieval world
1996, G. Weidenfeld & Nicolson
in English
0297833723 9780297833727
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