Nigel Hiscock

The Symbol at Your Door (eBook, PDF)

Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 the presence of number and 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 441
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351881364
• Artikelnr.: 49354833

Autorenporträt

Nigel Hiscock was a principal lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University until his retirement, and is now a Visiting Research Fellow there; he is also an architect. His previous monograph is The Wise Master Builder, Platonic Geometry in Plans of Medieval Abbeys and Cathedrals, also published by Ashgate, which achieved considerable critical success. In addition, he is the editor of The White Mantle of Churches, Architecture, Liturgy and Art around the Millennium, and has published a series of articles on medieval architecture and design.