1880 Folio Engraving - Antique Architectural Print - German Text

FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE - CATHEDRALS IN FRANCE

INCLUDES:

• ST PIERRE CATHEDRAL IN CAEN, NORMANDY - The Église St-Pierre (St. Peter's Church) is a fine example of the transition between Gothic and Renaissance forms. St-Pierre was built on the south side of the castle in the 13th and 14th centuries, and an impressively ornate Renaissance east end was added in the early 16th century. Inside, the nave features pointed Gothic arches and exuberant Renaissance-style vaulting is above the choir. Directly over the altar is a life-size, sculpted likeness of the St. Peter, the church's namesake.
• CATHEDRAL OF CHARTRES - The Cathedral of Chartres ("Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres," French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered the finest example in all France of the "high Gothic" style of architecture. Construction of a new building on the Romanesque foundations was begun in 1145, but a fire in 1194 destroyed all but the west front of the cathedral (and much of the town), so that part is in the "early Gothic" style. The body of the cathedral was rebuilt between 1194 and 1220, a remarkably short span for medieval cathedrals.
• FLOORPLANS OF NOTRE DAME IN PARIS - CATHEDRAL IN LEMANS - SAINTE CHAPELLE IN PARIS
• BALUSTRADE OF ST. CHAPELLE IN PARIS
  

Theodor Schreiber- 1848- 1912 Born Strehla an der Elbe, Saxony, Germany. Died in Leipzing (?), Germany . Schreiber studied at the University of Leipzig where he studied archaeology with Johannes Overbeck (q.v.) and philology with Friedrich Ritschl (1806-1876). In 1874 through a travel stipend from the DAI (Deutsche Archäologische Institut or German Archaeological Institute) he studied in Rome with Wilhelm Henzen (1816-1887) and Wolfgang Helbig (q.v.). He traveled to Greece and after particularly important study in Athens in 1876 he returned to Rome to catalog the Ludovisi family collection of classical sculpture. He completed this in 1880. In 1885 he became associate professor at Leipzig, adding the directorship of the museum in Leipzig the following year. Schreiber published widely on Hellenistic art topics. His Kunsthistorische Bilderbogen was an early study of polychromy in art. The work was produced by Seemann, Ernst Arthur. Kunsthistorische bilderbogen: für den Gebrauch bei akademischen und öffentlichen Vorlesungen, sowie beim Unterricht in der Geschichte und Geschmackslehre an Gymnasien, real- und höheren Töchterschulen zusammengestellt. 2 vols. Leipzig, E. A. Seemann, 1877-80.