Gothic Architecture

Gothic Cathedrals

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In the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Amiens, the main nave, dramatically high at 42 meters, was built in just sixteen years. “Material light, created both by nature in the sky and by human skill on earth, is only a reflection of clear light of knowledge, and above all of the true light.” Abbot Suger Gothic art … Read more

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On my last trip to England, I was lucky to visit the ancient Winchester Cathedral. A millennia-old center of pilgrimage and religiosity, the place where the present-day Gothic cathedral was built in the 11th century on Norman foundations, still visible at the intersection of the church’s aisles. It was the seat of shrines that disappeared … Read more