These are the languages translated word for word in columns of texts and lines of captions. Scala is famous for doing this. I guess it seems sort of "cosmopolitan" this way but I'd prefer the removal of 75% of the words to include or enlarge the photographs. This is a smallish book at under 6 1/2 by 8 inches but it's thick and solid with 256 pages and reinforced at the covers by a heavy flap like dust jackets. About the languages, it's interesting that the book spends time in the Iberian Peninsula but doesn't include Spanish.
This is a lovely book. I keep getting caught up in the great pictures and discussion as I'm trying to finish this review. From the cover you see that paintings are a big deal here but it's very gratifying to see all the other most important artistic and architectural show-pieced here. From stain glass windows to whole cathedrals to funeral effigies to statues to textiles, we're led around the rockin' Gothic world which pervaded the senses with the "bigness" of it all. One running theme of Gothic art is that there is a lot of, it's big and there's lots of...as my English husband describes them: "hupsty frutsties." By this he means that no plane or angle on buildings is not textured and covered with layers of decorative appointments. "Gothic" and "minimalist" are contradictory terms.
I enjoy the splendor of it all. I already have a number of places in England I'd like to visit on our next trip, maybe starting with Gloucester Cathedral. We have been to some of the sites here already like the fabulous York Minster. Over-the-top art and architecture are great things to focus on.
I can't tell why but the cover of my book is different than the one shown even though they were published the same year. The cover on this product page is a detail of the Annunciation: this angel is telling Mary she's expecting. Painted by Simone Martini in the early 14th century.
You will enjoy at least some aspects of the book. The emphasis, by far, is on the photos and they're truly glorious.
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