How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Chapters (16)
- How France Built Her Cathedrals A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- Illustrations
- How France Built Her Cathedrals
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I What Is Gothic Architecture?[3]
- CHAPTER II Abbot Suger and St. Denis-en-France
- CHAPTER III Some of the Primary Gothic Cathedrals: Noyon, Senlis, Sens, Laon, Soissons
- CHAPTER IV Notre Dame of Paris and Other Churches of the Capital[71]
- CHAPTER V Era of the Great Cathedrals, Chartres, Rheims, Amiens
- CHAPTER VI Six of the Lesser Great Cathedrals: Bourges, Beauvais, Troyes, Tours, Lyons, Le Mans
- CHAPTER VII Plantagenet Gothic Architecture[174]
- CHAPTER VIII Gothic in the Midi
- CHAPTER IX The Gothic Art of Burgundy[267]
- CHAPTER X Gothic Art in Normandy[314]
- Index
- Bibliography
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