The Cathedral Builders (Classic Reprint): The Story of a Great Masonic Guild - Couverture souple

Leader Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440054681 ISBN 13 : 9781440054686

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Cathedral Builders

This is very interesting in many ways. It proves that the architects who had been for some years in the service of the city and province of Florence, had been formerly established at Lucca, but from December 14, I 32 1, they were to be considered as permanently in the employ of the Florentines, and as such were permitted to provide a laborerium, etc.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In most histories of Italian art we are conscious of a vast hiatus of several centuries, between the ancient classic art of Rome—which was in its decadence when the Western Empire ceased in the fifth century after Christ—and that early rise of art in the twelfth century which led to the Renaissance. This hiatus is generally supposed to be a time when Art was utterly dead and buried, its corpse in Byzantine dress lying embalmed in its tomb at Ravenna. But all death is nothing but the germ of new life. Art was not a corpse, it was only a seed, laid in Italian soil to germinate, and it bore several plants before the great reflowering period of the Renaissance. The seed sown by the Classic schools formed the link between them and the Renaissance, just as the Romance Languages of Provence and Languedoc form the link between the dying out of the classic Latin and the rise of modern languages. Now where are we to look for this link? In language we find it just between the Roman and Gallic Empires. In Art it seems also to be on that borderland—Lombardy—where the Magistri Comacini, a mediæval Guild of Liberi Muratori (Freemasons), kept alive in their traditions the seed of classic art, slowly training it through Romanesque forms up to the Gothic, and hence to the full Renaissance.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The roots of what we know today as Speculative Freemasonry lay in the old Operative Freemasons. Among the most gifted of these craftsmen were the Comacine Builders of the 12 century. Often credited with ushering in the Renaissance the building quality of these Operative Freemasons rose to that of an art. All aspects of their work were given careful detail for quality, design and aesthetic beauty. Leader Scott gives us a fascinating and detailed look at these Operatives in this classic account. This is a photographic reproduction of the 1899 edition of this work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440054681
• ISBN 13: 9781440054686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 619
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