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Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance The book was bound with quarter-leather at one time. |
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Title Page, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance Architecture |
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Title Page Image (detail) A knight in armour [US: armor] rides a horse. He carries a lance, wears a sword, and fights a dragon; presumably this is St. George, patron saint of England. In the background is a castle or tower on a hill, a lady with a dog, and on the other side a windmill. Under the dragon there’s a skull and a broken spear-head. [...] [more...] |
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Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds A decorative element (a typographic ornament, or part of a border) at the head of the first chapter (the glossary) features mediaeval (medieval) bird designs. [more...] |
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7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443) “‘Second only in importance to the churches and religious buildings come the military and domestic buildings of the Gothic period (Fig. 7).” [more...] |
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30.—Sculpture from the entrance to the chapter house, Westminster Abbey (1250) “Examples abound, but both for beauty and accessibility we can refer to no better example than the carving which enriches the entrance to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (Fig. 30).” (p. 68) [more...] |
