Late Gothic Architecture: Its Evolution, Extinction, and Reception. Robert Bork. Architectura Medii Aevi 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. x +552 pp. €119

[...]the book is broader and more comprehensive than its stated subject. Bork credits the origin of the late Gothic style, fully expressed in such iconic buildings as King's College Chapel (Cambridge) and Brussels Town Hall, to the emergence of the Decorated style in England. Once the sixteenth...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 237 - 239
Main Author Ewing, Dan
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
Subjects
Architects
Architecture
Competitive advantage
Gothic period
Protestant Reformation
Renaissance period
England
Italy
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Summary:[...]the book is broader and more comprehensive than its stated subject. Bork credits the origin of the late Gothic style, fully expressed in such iconic buildings as King's College Chapel (Cambridge) and Brussels Town Hall, to the emergence of the Decorated style in England. Once the sixteenth-century chaos of the Protestant Reformation was unleashed, disrupting Catholic church building (the cornerstone of Gothic architecture), classical style soon won the day, and late Gothic became essentially extinct.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2020.328