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Meredith Cohen - The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris - 9781107025578 - V9781107025578
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The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris

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Description for The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris hardcover. This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle. Num Pages: 400 pages, 138 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; AMN; AMX; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 261 x 18. Weight in Grams: 890.
This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107025578
SKU
V9781107025578
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-12

About Meredith Cohen
Meredith Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in the art, architecture, and urban development of high medieval Europe, particularly in France and England. She has published articles on the Sainte-Chapelle, the Court Style, medieval Paris, nineteenth-century restoration, and the historiography of Gothic architecture. In addition, she has edited a series ... Read more

Reviews for The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris
'Meredith Cohen's study of the Sainte-Chapelle belongs to the distinguished tradition of studies of thirteenth-century Parisian and northern French Gothic architecture inaugurated in the United States by Robert Branner and continued by her teacher Stephen Murray … It does for the Sainte-Chapelle what the studies of the late Stephen Gardner did for the abbey of Saint-Denis, providing a contextual perspective ... Read more

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