"When we look at the soaring spaces of Chartres cathedral or the shimmering pages of a gilded and painted manuscript, we are witnesses to a new kind of vision. In this radical reappraisal of Gothic art in Europe, the word "Gothic" describes not only…
Few artistic terms have had such a confused history as the word "Gothic." Andrew Martindale approaches this complex period by first setting up terms with which to deal with it. He considers Gothic art basically as the style that developed in the…