Abstract
A recapitulation of the origins and the fortune of the expression "Plantagenet Architecture" and of the chronology of Gothic Art in the West of France from about 1150 to around 1250 reveals a juxtaposition of contradictory considerations rather than the System of dependence formerly conceived. At Angers and at Poitiers an architectural system specific to this West was created in which the primacy of interior unit space was opposed to the "diaphany" inherent in the relationship between internal and external structure of the North of France. Light is thus shed on the evolution of a century of creation, the strengths of the latters own internal logic and the reasons for its ultimate demise. Historical factors played a role in the context of a civilization very much open towards the outside world ; geographical factors through the technical facilities made available by the materials. All artistic creation is necessarily the result of an ephemeral conjuncture of propitious circumstances.
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