Author: Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain
Title: Notre-Dame de Paris
Description: New York, Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. Blue cloth, brown & color illus. dust jacket, 256 pp. 138 color illus. 103 BW illus. 21 line drawings; weighs 6 lbs. After recounting the events linking Notre-Dame to the city of Paris, author Alain Erlande-Brandenburg explains how the city, which Clovis made his capital in the sixth century, acquired an ancient cathedral that was rebuilt beginning in the twelfth century. It is fascinating to learn how the cathedral as it exists today resulted from a 'stacking' of successive monuments. Through reuse and the reclaiming of marshy terrain along the Seine, the land around the cathedral gradually expanded and was consolidated, and the author shows how, over time, in a sequence of progressively daring and inspired building projects, the present breathtaking structure took form. The history of the cathedral's construction, as well as its restoration in the nineteenth century, is recounted in detail in this exhaustive study. Particular attention is also devoted to the building's abundant sculpture, especially the moving remnants of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century programs now preserved in the Musee de Cluny." (dj) Contents as follows: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame -- The Ancient Cathedral -- The Grand Design of Maurice de Sully -- The Cathedral of Maurice de Sully -- The Temple of the New Covenant -- The Rayonnant Cathedral -- The Cathedral Rediscovered. VG/VG a lovely copy .
Keywords: European Architecturenotre ; Notre-Dame de Paris ; ; Single Buildings or Groups - European
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Title: Notre-Dame de Paris
Description: New York, Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. Blue cloth, brown & color illus. dust jacket, 256 pp. 138 color illus. 103 BW illus. 21 line drawings; weighs 6 lbs. After recounting the events linking Notre-Dame to the city of Paris, author Alain Erlande-Brandenburg explains how the city, which Clovis made his capital in the sixth century, acquired an ancient cathedral that was rebuilt beginning in the twelfth century. It is fascinating to learn how the cathedral as it exists today resulted from a 'stacking' of successive monuments. Through reuse and the reclaiming of marshy terrain along the Seine, the land around the cathedral gradually expanded and was consolidated, and the author shows how, over time, in a sequence of progressively daring and inspired building projects, the present breathtaking structure took form. The history of the cathedral's construction, as well as its restoration in the nineteenth century, is recounted in detail in this exhaustive study. Particular attention is also devoted to the building's abundant sculpture, especially the moving remnants of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century programs now preserved in the Musee de Cluny." (dj) Contents as follows: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame -- The Ancient Cathedral -- The Grand Design of Maurice de Sully -- The Cathedral of Maurice de Sully -- The Temple of the New Covenant -- The Rayonnant Cathedral -- The Cathedral Rediscovered. VG/VG a lovely copy .
Keywords: European Architecturenotre ; Notre-Dame de Paris ; ; Single Buildings or Groups - European
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 146351
- Book number: 146351
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