Gothic

Abbot Suger

Who created the Gothic style?

Saint-Denis

What church ambulatory is this?

Notre Dame

What church is this?

It uses Romanesque conventions like sexpartile rib vaulting and alternating support but has four part nave wall

What’s interesting about Laon Cathedral?

4

How many parts does an early gothic nave wall have

Triforium

Section of a nave wall below clerestory with lancets

Chartres

What church is this?

Chartres

First high gothic church

Amiens

What cathedral is this?

• More skeletal architecture

• Windows used more often?

Characteristics of Rayonnant style

Chartres Cathedral Royal Portal

What is this?

The Visitation

What is this?

Mary visiting Elizabeth

What is depicted in The Visitation?

Reims Cathedral

What cathedral is The Visitation in?

Virgin of Paris

What is this?

Hermes with the infant Dionysis

Virgin of Paris is like what Late Classical sculpture?

Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière

What is this?

Chartres north transept windows

What is this?

David Anointed by Samuel and Battle of David and Goliath

What is this?

Master Honoré

Who made this?

David before Saul

What is this?

Breviary of Philippe le Bel

What book is this in?

Jean Pucelle

Who made David before Saul?

Cames

Lead strips used to hold glass

Salisbury Cathedral

What is this?

English Gothic

What period is Salisbury Cathedral?

Chapel of Henry VII

What is this?

Westminster Abbey

Where is Chapel of Henry VII?

Gloucester Cathedral, Choir

What is this?

Flashing

Technique where two colored glasses are overlaid to make a new color

Plate Tracery

the earliest form of window tracery, where decorative stone patterns are cut through a solid piece of masonry above a window opening

bar tracery

thin stone bars dividing window openings, leading to a web-like effect where glass rather than stone dominates