The Influence of 13*- and lą^-century English Architecture in the Southern Baltic Region and Poland

• Authors: Adamski Jakub
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The significance of the English Decorated style for Northern- and Central European Late Gothic architecture has long been recognised. It was Nikolaus Pevsner who praised Decorated as "in some ways the most forward, the most important and certainly the most interesting in Europe T Henning Bock was the first to underline some striking similarities between English Decorated buildings and Peter Parler s groundbreaking choir of Prague CathedraP, which stimulated a long and vivid discussion on the possible insular roots of European Late Gothic. The most authoritative - yet fairly controversial - statement on the international importance of the Decorated style was formulated by Jean Bony in his flagship book horn 1979. He argued that around 1300 France had already lost her previous authority as the most influential and trend-setting centre of European architecture and that this role was taken up by England. Peter Parler s presumably direct knowledge of the Decorated style seemed to Bony to have been "a decisive stimulus in the development of German architecture^ and to have "set off a great new art movement". He concluded that till the very end of Gothic architecture in the Baltic area "England remained, in matters of vaulting [...], the source and constant model for all Late Gothic elaboration^.

• Publisher: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Institute of History of Art
• Journal: Modus. Prace z historii sztuki
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 41-67

Contributors

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Adamski Jakub

• Instytut Historii Sztuki UW