THE ROMANESQUE: Towns, Cathedrals and Monasteries.
Photos: Claude Huber, Anne and Henri Stierlin. Pp. 237+[3](advertisements, last blank), illustrated in colour throughout (several full page), maps, plans, chronological table, glossary, bibliography, indices; med. 4to; orange papered boards, lettered in white; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; small name stamp on upper free endpaper; Taschen, Koln, 1998. First edition. Taschen's World Architecture series. *'In Romanesque architecture, we see an expression not merely of power and faith but of the religious, political and social upheavals of 11th and 12th-century Europe. New buildings arose, their complex formal language determined by the rise of the pilgrimage, the cult of relics, and the reform of monastic orders' [wrapper blurb]. Item #176935
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