LINKS TO OTHER PARADOXPLACE BOOK PAGES
Books about the Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Link to Rose Windows in Paradoxplace
The North Transept Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral
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There is a c1976 coffee table book by Lawrence Lee et al called "Stained Glass" which is a real tour de force of the history and mechanics of stained glass. As well as great photos by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushingham, it contains keys to all the windows in Chartres and York. It's out of print, but can still be found second hand sometimes.
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Four of the best produced and most interesting large books on medieval architecture in the Dom Paradox library
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Ulrike Laule et al's Architecture of the Middle Ages mainly concentrates brilliantly on abbeys and churches, but includes some secular architecture. Though not as comprehensive as the two Schütz books below, it's our favourite of the four books here.
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At last search, this beautiful book was only available second hand, but it is well worth the effort to find.
Link to Paradoxplace Cloister Pages
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"Great Cathedrals" by Schütz has seriously good photographic coverage of the main cathedrals of England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy (ex Puglia, which you have to come to this site for), and a lot of it.
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Schütz's even fatter fat and equally well photographed "Great Monasteries of Europe" does for monasteries what his book on the left did for cathedrals. |
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Links to other Paradoxplace pages:
Books related to Christianity (including Cathedral Architecture)
Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Books written in the Middle Ages
Biographies and Autobiographies
On the right is the amazingly modern looking Margravine Uta, wife of Margrave Ekkehard II, statued in Naumburg Cathedral (Eastern Germany) c1250. A "Margrave", originally the head of a frontier (and therefore important) state, is equivalent to a Marquis in the Anglo-noble pecking order and a Marchese in Italy. In pre city-state times there was a Margrave of Tuscany based in Lucca then later Florence.
A companion coffee table book to the one above, but not as colourful.
The cover shows the figure of Peace from A Lorenzetti's fresco "The Court of the Common Good" in the Town Hall of Siena
The cover shows the Abbazia di Sant'Antimo in Southern Tuscany (link to lots more paradoxplace photos of this, Italy's most beautiful abbey).
One of the best (smaller) coffee table books (but not covers!) - lots of top photos.
The cover shows the Ca'd'Oro on the Grand Canal in Venice.
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ARTISTS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE - LISTING AND LINKS
LINK TO BOOKS ABOUT THE MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND ITS CATHEDRALS LINKS TO OTHER PARADOXPLACE BOOK PAGES
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