Chapter 13  Gothic

How did Gothic architecture start?  What are the main concepts?

Where did it start and most flourish?  

What are the different periods of Gothic and what makes them separate?

Romanesque vs Gothic

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13.1 Manuscript page from the Life of Saint Denis , completed 1317 

13.2 Interior of Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Saint Denis Nave- (outside Paris)

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/360/paris_denis_360/

https://picasaweb.google.com/115704858216819908267/ParisDay2#5645470280383740162

13.6 Carpenters' Guild Signature Window, detail of a stained-glass window, Chartres Cathedral, early 13th century.

Virgin and child at Chartres Cathedral

13.7 West façade, Saint-Étienne, > Caen, Normandy, France, 1067–87

13.9 Nave, Durham Cathedral.

13.10 South side of Chartres Cathedral, 13th Century.

Chartres Cathedral, West FaçadeFrance

Gothic Tower

Chartres CathedralFloor Plan

Radiating Chapel Vaulting Chartres Cathedral

Labyrinth in the Nave

Chartres Flying Buttresses

13.14 Royal Portal of the west façade, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1140–50.http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/France/Chartres/West_Facade/West_Portal.htm

JambsRoyal Portal columns

13.17 Saints Theodore, Stephen, Clement, and Lawrence , door jamb statues, south transept, Chartres Cathedral, 13th century.

13.19 Rose window and lancets, north transept, Chartres Cathedral, 13th century.

Rose Window from the outside- showing BAR TRACERY stonework

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Holy Relic of Chartres-fragment from the Veil of the Holy Virgin

Notre Dame Paris 1155-1250

East End

ApseFlying ButtressesSpireTransept

Apse RIBBED Vaulting with Lancet Stained Glass Windows

Notre Dame Paris Rose Window- West Facade

Gargoyles

Actual Water gutters to move water from theRoof away from the building

(think Gargling water)

Grotesques(do not act as waterGutters, but to scare offEvil spirits)

Mrs. Jones' Photoshttps://picasaweb.google.com/115704858216819908267/ParisNotreDame#5645457665845175474

13.20 West façade, Reims Cathedral, France, begun 1211.

Reims NaveLooking west to the Rose windows

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13.23  Annunciation and Visitation , door jamb statues, Reims Cathedral, c. 1225–45.Mrs. Jones; Photos https://picasaweb.google.com/115704858216819908267/ReimsFrance

Amiens CathedralAmiens France1152

Amiens Nave facing EastTo the Apse and Altar

Amiens Ribbed Vaulting

Mrs. Jones’ Photoshttps://picasaweb.google.com/115704858216819908267/AmiensCathedral

Amienshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xkl7j0s_is

Saint ChapelleParis

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13.25 King David Looks Down at Bathsheba Bathing and Up to God , from the Saint Louis Psalter, Paris, c. 1260.

13.26 Salisbury Cathedral, England, begun 1220.

Salisbury West Facade

Salisbury NaveFacing the Altar

Showing Nave ARCADE

Nave BayGalleryAnd Clerestory

Fan Vaults of the CHAPTER HOUSE

Entrance to the Chapter House

Exterior of the Chapter House

Aerial View of CLOISTERS

Cloister Vaulting

Chapel of Henry the VII, Westminster Abbey, London, England, 1503

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Gloucester Cathedral England 1332https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iQJVSFEx4k

13.29 Cologne Cathedral, Germanybegun 1248.

Nave of Cologne Cathedral

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