Des Monuments et des Hommes #4

Part of the Les Monuments et des Hommes series from Éditions du Signe, this 2009 volume turns its attention to Cathédrales — L'Art Français, celebrating the remarkable craft behind France's great Gothic cathedrals. Grycan's cover pulls us right into the action: two medieval workers navigate wooden scaffolding high above the ground, one carrying a bucket, as a soaring cathedral spire rises dramatically against a warm golden sky. It's an inviting, human-scale portrait of the hands-on labor that raised these extraordinary stone monuments toward the heavens.