Ideas & Culture · 1163 · Turning point
Notre-Dame de Paris Begun
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Gothic cathedral building was the defining public art project of medieval Europe, a centuries-long collaboration of architects, sculptors, and glaziers that pioneered structural engineering as spiritual experience. Stained glass programs were the era's mass visual communication: narrative images for a largely illiterate populace.
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