TAILIEUCHUNG - Universe of Stone A Biography of Chartres Cathedral

In 1204 some of the finest churches in Christendom were ransacked and the precious icons and relics were divided up among the plunderers. They snatched reliquaries from altars, forced open chests filled with holy treasures, stripped gold and silver metalwork from church fixtures. In their haste they spilled the sacramental wine over the marble floor, where it might mingle with the blood of any priest who stood in their way. | A BIOGRAPHY OF CHARTRES CATHEDRAL UNIVERSE OF STONE Chartres Cathedral south of Paris is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries And why during this time did Europeans begin to build churches in a new style at such immense height and with such glorious play of light in the soaring manner we now call Gothic Universe of Stone shows that the Gothic cathedrals encode a far-reaching shift in the way medieval thinkers perceived their relationship with their world. For the first time they began to believe in an orderly rational world that could be investigated and understood. This change marked the beginning of Western science and also the start of a long and. indeed unfinished struggle to reconcile faith and reason. By embedding the cathedral in the culture of the twelfth century its schools of philosophy and science its trades and technologies its politics and religious debates Philip Ball makes sense of the visual and emotional power of Chartres. Beautifully illustrated and written filled with astonishing insight Universe of Slone argues that Chartres is a sublime expression of the originality and vitality of a true first renaissance one that occurred long before the birth of Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo or Francis Bacon. .

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• Photographic Insert
• Hard Labour
• Holy Radiance
• Bibliography
• Chartres Cathedral
• Gothic Myth
• Henrietta Christian Wright