Architecture Of Truth; Author: Photographer Herve, Lucien; Author: Herve, Lucien; Performer: Herve, Lucien; Hardback; Book

Author: Photographer Herve, Lucien; Author: Herve, Lucien; Performer: Herve, Lucien
Hardback; Book; 70 Duotone Photographs, Biographies
159 pages
Published: May 2001
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714840033

The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet. A unique photographic study of twelfth-century Romanesque architecture. First published in 1957, this book provides us with a new opportunity to see these striking photographs that convey the intense spirituality of the Cistercian monastic order.A pictorial appreciation of the Abbey of Le Thoronet in Provence, one of the wonders of 12th-century Cistercian architecture, photographed by Lucien Herve in the mid-1950s and introduced by Le Corbusier. Herve's study presents the building throughout the course of a day.