How France built her cathedrals; a study in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

How France built her cathedrals; a study in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Author: O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle, 1874-

Year: 1921

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. WHAT IS GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE? 10 Gothic architecture the logical fulfillment of Romanesque — Origin of Romanesque architecture — Romanesque basilicas modified by the liturgy — Horrors of the IX and X centuries in France — Rebirth of the builders' energy after the year 1000 — Cluny, the civilising force of the X and XI centuries — Various regional Romanesque schools of Prance — Normandy, Burgundy, Auvergne, Poitou, Languedoc, Provence, and the Franco-Picard school — Birth of Gothic art — An undecided question where the first diagonal-crossing ribs were used — Germany's and Italy's claims — Claim of England — The De-de-France Picard region, the classic land of Gothic — Gothic architecture not a layman's revolt against monkish Romanesque — The architects of the Gothic cathedrals — No heretical tendencies in Gothic sculpture — Origin of the term Gothic — XVII- and XVIII-century scorn for Gothic architecture — Modern French school of mediaeval archaeology. II. ABBOT SUGER AND ST. DENIS-EN-FRANCE 43 Evolution from Romanesque to Gothic— St. Denis' abbatial, the first important Gothic monument — Some early-Gothic churches in the De-de-France — Morienval, the first G