Description

Large format hardcover in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. New. 276 pages. Illustrated with black and white, and some color, photographs; maps. Contents include: The rose window and the Gothic experience; From darkness to light: the origins of the rose window; The age of the rose: innovation in the thirteenth century; Experiments in form: from Curvilinear to flamboyant; Decline and revival: post-medieval roses; Cycles of meaning: iconography and enlightenment; The geometry of light: designing and building the rose window. Brand new copy in publisher’s shrink wrap. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.