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Gothic Cathedral Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order
by Von Simson, Otto Georg
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- ISBN-13: 9780691018676
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- Publication Date: 1988
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
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This essay seeks to understand Gothic architecture as an image, more precisely, as the representation of supernatural reality. To those who designed the cathedrals, as to their contemporaries who worshiped in them, this symbolic aspect or function of sacred architecture overshadowed all others. To us, it has become the least comprehensible.Von Simson, Otto Georg is the author of 'Gothic Cathedral Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order', published 1988 under ISBN 9780691018676 and ISBN 0691018677.
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