Since its original publication in 1963 in French, no work has challenged the authority of Robert Branner's classic study of the Bourges Cathedral. Branner explains and illustrates the importance of this grand cathedral to the development of High Gothic architecture from 1195 to the middle of the 13th century. The present edition retains the author's original, 14 meticulous plans and sections - the only accurate ones available for the cathedral - and adds many new photographs from his own personal archive.  Branner's brilliant analysis of Bourges demonstrates its position and importance in High Gothic architecture and replaces previous classifications of Bourges, as an isolated exception, which obscured its provenance, contribution, and meaning to the medieval world. Comparing Chartres and Bourges as examples of the two kinds of High Gothic, Branner demonstrates that the interpenetration of spaces, structure, and light at Bourges were the work of a great visionary, the Bourges master, whose work influenced Gothic architecture of the period.  The French edition received the 1963 Alice Davis Hitchcock award given by the Society of Architectural Historians for the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture, This edition is based on Branner's original English text, edited to reflect his later thinking. It includes an updated bibliography by Anne Prache, Université de Paris Sorbonne. An Architectural History Foundation Book.

The Cathedral of Bourges and Its Place in Gothic Architecture (ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION/M I T PRESS SERIES)

Arts & Photography

BRANNER, Robert

Architecture

Mit Pr

The Cathedral of Bourges and Its Place in Gothic Architecture (Architectural History Foundation Book)

Burgundian Gothic Architecture (Studies in Architecture, Vol 3)

Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns

This book is a study of one of the most brilliant periods of Gothic architecture. During the reign of St Louis, in the middle of the 13th century, Paris became the artistic pacemaker of Europe, and the churches designed for the king of France were looked upon as the height of taste and sophistication. The Sainte Chapelle and other monuments closely associated with Louis IX attracted patrons from all over Europe and Parisian Gothic began to appear in England (Westminster Abbey and Old St Paul's), Germany and Spain. The author traces the gradual emergence and diffusion of the French Court Style and analyses the shifts in royal taste that made it possible.

St. Louis and the Court Style in Gothic Architecture (Studies in Architecture, Vol 7)

An introduction to Chartres Cathedral with an analytical and historical essay, documents and source materials, critical essays and 125 illustration.

Chartres Cathedral

Religion & Spirituality

W.W.Norton

Chartres Cathedral;: With source material and selected critical writings (Critical studies in art history)

THAMES HUDSON LTD

First edition of this scholarly study. Includes twenty-five illustrations in color and 412 in black and white. Extensive appendices and index. xxiv, 270 pages. cloth.. 4to..

Manuscript painting in Paris during the reign of Saint Louis: A study of styles (California studies in the history of art)

University of California Press

Over 100 illustrations including photographs, plans and drawings of gothic architecture.

Gothic Architecture.

G. Braziller

Photographs and text provide a history of Gothic architecture from the twelfth century with an emphasis on cathedral design

Gothic Architecture

George Braziller

The work of Professor Robert Branner on French Gothic architecture needs no introduction and remains of fundamental importance today. His studies of Chartres , Bourges and Reims cathedrals are still standard works on these monuments. This volume brings together 20 papers published by Robert Branner in the 1950s and 1960s. There is a Preface by Professor William Clark and a comprehensive index.

Studies of Gothic Architecture

History

Europe

Pindar Press

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