Sunteți pe pagina 1din 158

Gothic

St. Denis
Gothic
St. Denis ambulatory Gothic arch is pointed
Instead of round.

Gothic arch has keystones and


Boussousomething, but they are
pointed arch allows Narrower.
for opening of space
royal tombs at St. Denis
royal tombs at St. Denis
Notre Dame means: our lady. Virgin Mary.

Right one is Romanesque.


The left is more pointy, gothic.

Notre Dame, Chartres


Chartres: plate tracery window on west facade

more stone than glass


Window of St. Lubin, patron saint of winesellers
wine crier tavern owner customer

Stain glass windows were made a lot in the gothic


Period because they were fascinated with light.
Gothic
Chartres Main Door
long braids
wide sleeves

kings and queens of France


Gothic
Chartres interior: the nave

cross vaults in ceiling

pointed arches
Gothic
Chartres

plate tracery from the inside


Gothic
Chartres nave wall

pointed arch

3 levels
Gothic
scientia at Chartres

light as the manifestation


of divine wisdom
labyrinth on nave floor
Gothic
Chartres: East exterior
Gothic
Chartres from the air

flying buttresses

radiating chapels
Notre Dame, Paris
Portal of the Virgin
Portal of the Virgin

Portal of the Virgin


crockets

Gothic
Notre Dame of Paris

finials

flying buttresses
Gothic gargoyles
Notre Dame of Paris
Gothic

rose window

Notre Dame of Paris


Gothic

flying buttresses

finials

ribbed vaults

Notre Dame of Paris


Gothic

Building a cathedral

short tunics
hose
Gothic

journeymen workers

surcote
master masons
misericords, or “bum seats”--
images on the underneath of
choir stall seats

Rouen: story of Aristotle and


Phyllis
demon riding two women—St. Margaret’s, Chester
“birching” a school boy at Burg-en-Bresse
domestic violence
woman beating her husband
fox reading
the fox teaching the chickens
Gothic
Plan: Amiens Cathedral (France) radiating chapels

side aisle
ambulatory

nave
Salisbury Cathedral (England)

double transept

chapter house

cloister
Salisbury Cathedral
Gothic
built in the country, 7 miles from Salisbury
Old Sarum

only the foundations remain


Gothic

filled with inferior local stone

marble from Caen

Old Sarum
Gothic

Old Sarum taken apart


and built at Salisbury,
7 miles away
Salisbury Cathedral, ca. 1220
tallest spire in England

Salisbury
Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral:
main portal
Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral: nave
Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral:
crossing
Gothic
clerestory Salisbury Cathedral: side wall
windows

triforium

arcade
Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral:
chapter house

prayer niches
Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral:
fan vault

leaf-and-flower decoration
Gothic Salisbury Cathedral: table from chapter house

floor tile with


encaustic design
Gothic
Siena, Italy
fresco: “good government”
houpelande
striped fabric
Bishop opening the
Fair of Lendit
Gothic
Timbered house

wattle and daub

window opens to create shop


framing a house
Gothic

country house
Gothic

country house
Gothic Crofter’s Cottage in Scotland

thatched roof
Crofter’s Cottage in Scotland

thatched roof
Gothic Interiors:
a Great Hall in
northern England

hammer-beam roof

pierced wall
Gothic Interiors:
a Great Hall in
northern England

hammer-beam roof

pierced wall
Dining in the Great Hall
Dining in the Great Hall
canopy

trestle tables

buffet
canopy

trestle tables

buffet
A bourgeois family dining
A bourgeois family dining
Sleeping in the Great Hall
Sleeping in the Great Hall
paneled bed
paneled bed
Receiving visitors in the Great Hall
Receiving visitors in the Great Hall
King Philip Augustus
of France, ca. 1200

x-form chair

rich textiles
King Philip Augustus
of France, ca. 1200

x-form chair

rich textiles
In the Bedroom
(also called solar—a
withdrawing room for
ladies or the family)

tester bed with curtains

windows ½ glass, ½ shuttered


fireplace
with hood

cabinet

settle
settle
settle with blind tracery

note similar arch pattern


settle with linenfold paneling
university lecture
credence with pierced tracery
French buffet
A carpenter’s shop
Everyday Life:

reaping and binding


from the Luttrell Psalter, 1340
shearing
Spinning and carding
weaving
The Virgin Mary knitting

S-ar putea să vă placă și