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The Gothic Lives on in London:
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Francesca Drew |
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Where Loves no more, but marble Angels moan, And little Cherubs seem to sob in stone.
-John Dart
Perceptions of the Gothic Age, today, are perhaps prejudiced in that they behold the constructs from that period as ancient. The term ancient, meaning "having existed," can end the life of a building or object of art because it is then no longer seen as having meaning in present society. The ancient objects just become artifacts placed in categories of time which will always be thought of as other than our own and this is how art and architecture fall into disregard. Otto von Simson comments on this issue by sighting the Gothic cathedral:
The vision that originally challenged the material resources, the technical ingenuity, the consummate artistry of an entire age, has long since become a commonplace of respectable church building and an object of archaeological classification.
There lies the assumption that the age that gave birth to these cathedrals has left us the objects, but few remnants of meaning
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