Framing the Church takes a nontraditional approach to the study of the hallmark of French Gothic architecture: the buttress.
In a series of case studies spanning approximately five hundred years and incorporating some of Gothic France's most significant monuments, Maile S.
Hutterer examines the aesthetics, social processes, and iconography of flying buttresses and buttress piers to explain how they supported the church both symbolically and structurally.
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Penn State University Press Framing the church: the social and artistic power of buttresses in french gothic architecture, hardcover/maile s. hutterer
