"It is now indisputably the first Gothic cathedral where iron was conceived as a true building material to create unprecedented architecture," Dillmann states. This innovation "spread to other ...

The oldest clamps, roughly 10 to 20 inches long, dated to the beginning of the cathedral's construction in the 1160s-making Notre Dame the first Gothic cathedral using iron as a building material.

For the first time in decades, the original surfaces of the upper ... She would spend 37 years at Duke teaching various art history courses including her popular Gothic Cathedrals class, in which ...

St Paul's was the first British cathedral to be built for ... is marked by a black marble slab in the St Paul's crypt. The Gothic cathedral, St Michael's of Coventry, was destroyed on the night ...

Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest achievements—ambitious monuments where master architects, carpenters, stonemasons, and glassworkers pushed engineering to its limits. These ...

Over the centuries, many of the stone details at York Minster— the Gothic cathedral in York, England—eroded, requiring restoration or replacement. Building this new grotesque demanded expert ...

2024 10:03 a.m. PARIS — Five years after a catastrophic fire reduced Notre Dame Cathedral to a smoldering shell, The Associated Press entered the Gothic masterpiece for a first glimpse of its ...