Framing the Church
Subtitle: The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780271083445
Subjects: Architecture, gothic; Church architecture, france
Description: "Examines Gothic architecture and the visual and cultural significance of the adoption of externalized buttressing systems in twelfth-century France. Demonstrates how buttressing frames operated as sites of display, points of transition, and mechanisms of demarcation"--