Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture

Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 Scholarly Constructs and Challenges: Gothic, Lateness, and Modernity
1.1 Negotiating the Gothic Canon
1.2 Late Gothic Architecture and Historicism
2 Chapter Overviews
Relativizing the Lateness of Late Gothic Architecture
Part 1 Space and Reception: Western Perspectives
1 Late Gothic Medieval Imaginations in Jean Fouquet’s Grandes chroniques de France
1 Architectural Representation in the Grandes chroniques
2 Fouquet’s Chapels and Architectural Typology
3 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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2 Reading Late Gothic Architecture
1 The Town and the Parish Church
2 A Gilded Balustrade
3 Visibility and Legibility
4 Textual Ornamentation in Late Gothic Architecture
Acknowledgments
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3 The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style
4 “Toutefois moderne, sans tenir de l’antique”
1 Flamboyant and Première Renaissance: The Reasons for a Possible Dialogue
2 A Multilingual Building Site, a Work of Synthesis: The Château de Gaillon at the Dawn of the 16th Century
3 “Il più magnifico et superbo a pena se potria retrovare”: Gaillon in the Eyes of Contemporaries
4 A Gradual Change in Taste: Descriptions of Gaillon in the 17th and 18th Centuries
5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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Part 2 Experimentation and Innovation in Central Europe
5 The Development of Western and Central European Gothic
1 Evaluations of the European Architecture of ca.1300 in 20th-Century Scholarship
2 Various Stylistic Currents in the French Architecture of ca.1250–1350
3 “Modernity” and “Avant-Garde” in the European Architecture at the Turn of the 14th Century
4 Conclusion: Understanding Advancement of the Architecture around 1300
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6 Did Jan Długosz Read Vitruvius?
1 Architecture and Illusion
2 Between Abstraction and Figuration
3 Emblematic Architecture
4 To the Sources of the Art of Building
5 Stone and Timber
6 Conclusion
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7 Entwined Meanings and Organic Form at the Prague Cathedral Royal Oratory
1 Royal Display
2 Green Chambers and Primitive Huts
3 A Divided Land Entwined
Acknowledgments
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8 Conflicting Views
1 The Patron
2 Peter Parler
3 The South Transept Façade
4 The Mosaic
5 The Compromise
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Part 3 Global Gothics on the Margins of Europe and Beyond
9 The Currency of the Gothic in the Carpathian Mountain Regions
1 Transylvania
2 Moldavia and Wallachia
3 Conclusion
10 When Venus Met Godfrey
1 Staging Classical Antiquity as the Visualization of Dominion: Venus and Venice in Famagusta’s Early Modern Townscape
2 Fusing Classical and Gothic into a Visual Paean of the Lusignan Past: The Design of the Bembo Loggia
3 Anchoring the Memory of the Crusades in Gothic Grandeur: Godfrey of Bouillon, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and Famagusta’s Latin Cathedral
4 Erudite Perceptions of Local History and the Gothic as Antique in the Architecture of Venetian Cyprus
Acknowledgments
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11 Memory, Modernity, and Anachronism at the Convent of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo
1 Telling the Hour
2 Weaving Histories
3 Unstitching the Tapestry of Time
4 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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12 Colonial Gothic and the Negotiation of Worlds in 16th-Century Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1 Memory
2 Labor
3 Domestication
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Afterword: Unruly Gothic
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Biblical Index
Index of Repositories: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Index of Names, Titles, and Selected Realia