ヨーロッパのゴシック様式大聖堂の素晴らしさについて（英語）

Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

Does humanity have any greater architectural legacy than the Gothic cathedrals of Europe? pic.twitter.com/e7IIQvEGYd

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Even greater than the almost unfathomable technical achievement to build them without modern machines, is the fact that men struggled their entire lives, knowing they would never live to see the end result. pic.twitter.com/tIjdHb9XAu

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Cologne Cathedral is a perfect example - under construction for more than 600 years, and generations of builders never saw it complete. This is how it looked in 1824, prior to completion in 1880. pic.twitter.com/ie2JtyHXGg

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Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

These monumental structures are expressions of unwavering faith by the medieval builders who set out to construct them, driven to be part of something much greater than themselves. pic.twitter.com/pLPpqn4bhh

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Integral to their design was the belief that light itself was divine, and that when it poured in through the great windows it elevated one's consciousness to the heavens. pic.twitter.com/o99rUApyuE

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Their scale was made possible by several important innovations, such as flying buttresses and pointed arches which made taller and thinner walls possible - achieving maximum height and maximum light. pic.twitter.com/7PwTjBdJPP

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Cologne Cathedral was the tallest building in the world from 1880 to 1890. The first structure to take that title from the Great Pyramid of Giza was also a Gothic cathedral - Lincoln Cathedral in 1311. pic.twitter.com/AIlSf5C7eK

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English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said it best: "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable." pic.twitter.com/vOJnog6NaC

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@Culture_Crit We visited the Sagrada Familia, which is supposed to be the tallest cathedral in the world when it is completed. It is 1/2 a meter shorter than the tallest mountain surrounding Barcelona, because the architect said no building should be taller than God’s creations.

Darby Bailey 🖍️💫 @DarbyBaileyXO

@PantsReno35333 @Culture_Crit The light at dusk inside the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona is astonishing (this is not AI) pic.twitter.com/Dqfsjd9Xbw

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