Chartres and the birth of the cathedral

by Titus Burckhardt

Paperback, 1996

Series

Publication

Imprint: Bloomington, Ind. : World Wisdom Books, c1996. Context: Originally published in German as Chartres und die Geburt der Kathedrale. Responsibility: by Titus Burckhardt ; translated from the German by William Stoddart ; foreword by Keith Critchlow. OCLC Number: 32820578. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. Features: Includes index, notes.

Call number

Art / Burck

Barcode

BK-04205

ISBN

0941532216 / 9780941532211

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Arts and Letters

CSS Library Notes

Description: The purpose of the present work is to evoke as authentically as possible the spiritual climate in which the Gothic cathedral was born, and to do so by allowing contemporary witnesses to speak for themselves...to show how the Gothic cathedral was the final fruit to ripen on the tree of an ancient tradition.

Contents:
Foreword --
Preface --
The earliest models --
The preliminary stages --
Church, kingdom, and art --
Suger's re-building of the Church of Saint-Denis --
Hard labour for God --
The Royal Door --
The first Gothic cathedrals --
The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin at Chartres --
Geometric wisdom --
The sacred windows --
Liturgy and art --
Epilogue: The Temple of the Holy grail --
Notes --
Index.

FY

Physical description

135 p.; 30 cm

Description

This new and revised edition of Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral, is a richly colored window onto the lofty intellectual and spiritual climate that conceived the marvel that is Gothic architecture. Featuring a new appendix with three sections, and a new Foreword by John James, a world authority on Chartres, as well as 25 new illustrations, it cannot fail to inspire the reader to become a pilgrim to Chartres.