Art Bites 148: Building a Gothic Cathedral Out of 13 Tourists

About the Episode

Gothic churches were taller and brighter than the earlier Romanesque. They had a skeleton of support — columns, buttresses, and pointed arches — as can be unforgettably illustrated by building a Gothic church with 13 travelers.

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