Format:
Video disc
Title:
The cathedral
ISBN:
9781598036954
Publication Information:
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., ©2010.
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 145 pages ; 19 cm).
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General Note:
Course No. 7868 ; 24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture ; on 4 videodiscs ; with an accompanying guidebook.
Contents:
Lecture 1. What is a cathedral? -- Lecture 2. Early Christian architecture -- Lecture 3. Romanesque: a new monumental style -- Lecture 4. Vaulting: a look at roofs -- Lecture 5. Romanesque at its best -- Lecture 6. Saint-Denis and the beginning of Gothic style -- Lecture 7. The urban context of cathedrals -- Lecture 8. Notre Dame in Paris -- Lecture 9. Early Gothic style: Laon -- Lecture 10. Chartres: the building -- Lecture 11. Chartres: the sculpture -- Lecture 12. Chartres: the windows -- Lecture 13. Amiens: the limits of height -- Lecture 14. Amiens: the façade -- Lecture 15. Reims: the royal cathedral -- Lecture 16. Cathedrals: who builds? who pays? how long? -- Lecture 17. New developements in Gothic France -- Lecture 18. Late Gothic churches in France -- Lecture 19. Early Gothic architecture in England -- Lecture 20. Decorated and perpendicular English Gothic -- Lecture 21. Gothic churches in the Holy Roman Empire -- Lecture 22. Gothic churches in Italy -- Lecture 23. Gothic styles in Iberia and the New World -- Lecture 24. Gothic architecture in today's world.
Summary:
A course on the cathedral in Western civilization.
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