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

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 237 - 239
• Main Author: Ewing, Dan
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Architects; Architecture; Competitive advantage; Gothic period; Protestant Reformation; Renaissance period; England; Italy

[...]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...