The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages

Langue : anglais

Edité par Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007

0754663000 / 9780754663003

  • Éd. originale
  • Livre relié
  • Occasion
Afficher toutes les informations

Vendeur : Allen Williams Books, Dover, Kent, Royaume-UniAllen Williams Books

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 2 mai 2017

Livre relié

Etat: Occasion - Assez bon

EUR 98,39

EUR 27,46 expédition 
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis

Quantité disponible : 1 disponible

Ajouter au panier
Retours gratuits sous 30 jours

A propos de cet article

The dust jacket has touch of edge wear. Minor bumps to the bottom tips of the boards. Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the retrieval of meaning from architecture in the Greek East and the Latin West, and challenges the view that geometry was merely an outcome of practical procedures by masons. Instead, it attributes intellectual meaning to it as understood by Christian Platonist thought and provides compelling evidence that the symbolism was often intended. In so doing, the book serves as a companion volume to The Wise Master Builder by the same author, which found the same system implicit in plans of cathedrals and abbeys. The present book explains how the architectural symbolism proposed could have been understood at the time, as supported by medieval texts and its context, since it is context that can confer specific meaning. The introduction locates the study in its critical context and summarizes Christian Platonism as it determined the meaning of number and geometry. The investigation opens with the recurrent symbolism of the dome and the cube as heaven and earth in the Byzantine world and moves to the duality of the temple and the body in the East and West as reflections of Plato's universal macrocosm and human microcosm. The study then examines each of the figures of Platonic geometry in the architecture of the West against the background of their mathematics and metaphysics, before proceeding to their synthesis with the circle, as seen in circular and polygonal structures, the divisions of circles in Christian art, and their display in window tracery, culminating in the rose window. In view of the multivalency of the symbolism, the investigation establishes systematic occurrences of it, which strongly suggest patterns of thought underlying systems of design. The book concludes with a series of test cases, which show the after-life of the same symbolism as it overlapped with the Renaissance. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.…

N° de réf. du vendeur 163390

Titre
The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages
Auteur
Nigel Hiscock
Éditeur
Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot
Année de publication
2007
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Type de livre
Book
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0754663000
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780754663003
Édition
1st Edition.

Allen Williams Books

Dover, Kent, Royaume-Uni

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 2 mai 2017

Frais d'expédition de Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis

Article5 à 14 jours ouvrés5 à 15 jours ouvrés
Premier articleEUR 27,46EUR 27,46
Les délais de livraison sont fixés par les vendeurs et varient en fonction du transporteur et du lieu. Les commandes transitant par les douanes peuvent être retardées et les acheteurs sont responsables de tous les droits ou frais associés. Les vendeurs peuvent vous contacter au sujet de frais supplémentaires afin de couvrir toute augmentation des coûts d'expédition de vos articles.

Modes de paiement

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Chèque
  • En espèces
  • Paypal

Spécialité

New & Used

Profil professionnel du vendeur

Allen Williams Books

Royaume-Uni