Cathedrals of Spain (Classic Reprint)

English books on Spain have appeared. They have dealt with their subject from the point of view of the artist or the historian, the archaeologist, the politician, or the mere sight-seer. The student of architecture, or the traveler, desiring a more intimate or serious knowledge of the great cathedrals, has had nothing to consult since Street published his remarkable book some forty years ago. There have been artistic impressions, as well as guide-book recitations, by the score. Some have been excellent, though few have surpassed the older ones of Dumas, pere, and Gautier, or Baedeker slater guide-book. A year ago appeared the second and last volume of Senor Lamperez y Romea s Historia de la A rquitectura Cristiana Espanola en la Edad Media, a work so comprehensive and scholarly that it practically stands alone. It has seemed to me that certain buildings, and especially cathedrals, cannot be properly studied quite apart from what surrounds them, or from their past history. To look comprehendingly up at cathedral vaults and spires, one must also look beyond them at the city and the people and times that created them. In some such setting, the study of A vila, Salamanca the elder and the younger, Burgos, Toledo, Leon, Segovia, Seville, and Granada is here attempted, in the hope it will not prove too technical for the ordinary traveler, nor too superficial for the student of architecture.
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