Keywords Chapter 13: Gothic Art

Archivolt

a series of concentric bands framing the tympanum

Bar Tracery

slender pieces of stone and lead added on the inside of the window

Barrel Vault  

semi-cylindrical vault is really a deep series of arches one behind the other, over an oblong space

Breviary

a book of selected prayers and psalms

Clerestory

the fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roof of the other parts

Compound Pier

a pier with a group or cluster of  attached responds

Crossing Tower

over the crossing of the church

Fan Vault 

one whose radiating ribs form a fan

Flamboyant Tracery  

flamelike tracery made up of curves and countercurves

Fleur-de-lis  

a three-petaled iris which was the symbol of the French royal family

Flying Buttresses

  exterior aches which spring from the lower roof over the aisle and ambulatory and counter the outward thrust of the nave vaults

Gothic Architecture (1200-1400 AD)

these churches were regarded as images of the City of God, the New Jerusalem. They were characterized height, possible because of the pointed arch and flying buttresses which these high walls and stained glass windows.

Hallenkircke

hall churches; the aisles rise to the same height as the nave

Lancets

tall, narrow windows ending in pointed arches

Mendicant

begging orders-Franciscans

Oculus

   a small round window

Ogee Arches

two double lines meeting at a point

Perpendicular Gothic

the last English Gothic style characterized by a strong vertical emphasis

Pieta

a painted or carved representation of Mary with the dead Christ in her arms

Pinnacle

a sharply pointed ornament capping a pier or a flying buttress

Plate Tracery

solid stone block which was carved so the glass could be embedded

Quatrefoil

tracery forms a cloverleaf with four lobes

Rayonnant 

the radiant style of the high Gothic age

Responds  

an engaged column or pilaster

Rib Vault

were supported by arches which formed an armature, a skeletal framework

Rose Window

a circular window with stained glass and stone tracery used on the facades and the ends of the transepts in Gothic cathedrals

Tracery

ornamental stone work in Gothic windows which supported the pieces of glass

Trefoil

tracery forms a cloverleaf with three lobes

Triforiums

band of arcades, frequently blind arcades, below the clerestory. Its insertion frequently results in a four story elevation