| #2028595 in Books | Harry N. Abrams | 1998-10-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | 12.50 x1.00 x9.75l, | File Name: 0810940175 | 200 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Information, gorgeous detail, a real find|By J. Sorensen|This book describes beautifully the way great cathedrals were built. The research and writing are excellent. The many full color illustrations are those created during medieval times. Paintings were made then of the artisans, craftsmen, sculptors, and laborers at work in their special trades. The cathedral|From Library Journal|The great European cathedrals continue to amaze and delight visitors. With their lacy stonework and the sparkling tracery of their stained glass windows, few structures have been able to hold in thrall their onlookers for so many centuries.
A detailed and lively account of the great European cathedrals of the 11th to the 16th centuries, this illustrated volume tells how those at Chartres, Strasbourg, Milan and elsewhere came to be built. Francois Icher explains how bishops and wealthy patrons funded these projects and chose the architects and master builders, and how teams of craftsmen were assembled and brought to the site. Working conditions, daily schedules, contracts, the apprentice system and specific...
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