Framing the church the social and artistic power of buttresses in French Gothic architecture
"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"--
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Visualizing buttressing and the aesthetics of the frame
- Negotiating buttress spaces
- Sculptural programs and the assertion of ecclesiastical hegemony
- Buttressing-frame systems as signs of spiritual protection.
