Description
Book SynopsisWillibald Sauerländer, an expert in Gothic sculpture, presents significant contributions to the field in two volumes of essays. Common themes include the great centres, the survival of antiquity, nature, and Gothic style's European spread. The essays are variously in German, French and English; a bibliography of Sauerländer's work is included.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
The Milieu. Medieval Paris, Centre of European Taste. Fame and Realities
The Great Centres. Tombeaux chartrains du premier quart du XIIIème siècle
Die kunstgeschichtliche Stellung der Westportale von Notre-Dame in Paris. Ein Beitrag zur Genesis des hochgotischen Stils in der französischen Skulptur
Zu den neugefundenen Fragmenten von Notre-Dame in Paris
Les statues royales du transept de Reims
Observations sur la topographie et l'iconologie de la Cathédrale du sacre
The Survival of Antiquity. "Première architecture gothique" or "Renaissance of the Twelfth Century"?
Changing Perspectives in the Evaluation of Architectural History
Renaissance and Revival in The Twelfth Century.
Architecture and the Figural Arts outside Italy
L'art antique et sculpture autour de 1200. St. Denis, Lisieux, Chartres
The Mirror of Nature. "Intentio vera nostra est manifestare ea quae sunt sicut sunt". Bildtradition und Wirklichkeitserfahrung in Spannungsfeld der staufischen Kunst
"Kleider machen Leute". Vergessenes aus Viollet-le-Duc's "Dictionnaire du mobilier français"
