Michael Arditti

Sixteen cathedrals to see before you die

Emma J. Wells focuses on the Gothic style as ‘the metaphorical and physical exemplar of the Celestial City’

King Dagobert I oversees the construction of the cathedral of Saint-Denis. From the illuminated manuscript Les Grandes Chroniques de France. [Alamy]

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