have survived, and that even for French Cathedrals only a very few random drawings exist today. Any study of Gothic cathedral architecture, therefore, is basically impossible without a detailed ...

art, an expression of the nation’s creative ... him. . . . What he wants is another 15th Century church, a 20th Century Gothic cathedral in harmony with the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, ...

“Gothic was an innovative, progressive architecture,” says Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University ... Early Gothic churches like Sens Cathedral and Senlis Cathedral, spurred ...

The Gothic cathedral—from St.-Denis and Notre-Dame ... the Roman Empire in the 4th to 5th century A.D. The "father of art history," Giorgio Vasari, joined in the melée, lambasting the style ...

Gothic cathedrals represent medieval ... with its harmonious Latin Cross plan and spectacular collection of art, tombs, and stained glass, proves that good things come to those who wait.

He also resurrected the art of grotto-making ... Hill and Eric Gill a Gothic respect for craft and communitarian work; when he laid his chisel on the fabric of a cathedral, he knew he was ...