Gothic Architecture UCLA

2025 115E

Saint Denis Façade

1136-1140

Saint Denis

Abbot Suger’s Choir

1240-1244

Saint Denis Nave and Trancept

1231-1280

burial place of the kings and queens of france

Saint Chapelle

Pierre de Montreuil

1239-1248

King Louis IX

Crown of Thorns

Pierre de Montreuil

Saint Chapelle

1239-1248

Rayonnant

ile de la cite

Saint Maclou

Rouen

Pierre Robin

Dufour Family

1432/6-1510

Saint Maclou

1432/6-1510

Pierre Robin

Rouen

Tour Saint-Jaques

1509-1523

jean de felin & julien Menart & jean de Revier

right bank of paris

Tour Saint Jaques

1509-1523

jean de felin & julien Menart & jean de Revier

right bank of paris

flamboyant

had relic of saint james

where pilgrimage begins

Souflette

symetrical leaf like form that may be pointed on one end or both

mouchette

assymetrical version of the souflette with a pointed tail

east end of saint severin

1489-96

Guillaume d'Estouteville

left bank

Saint Severin

east end 1489-96

lierne vaults and spiral column

Guillaume d'Estouteville

one cathedral has multiple phases or architecture in both styles

virgin chapel of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais (1494-1620)

completed 1517

choir in 1540

Assisi, San Francesco

Upper Church Nave

1228-1253

Sequential Narrative

Saint Francis Master Cycle of Saint Francis

c.1290

Ognissanti madonna

Giotto 

ca.1310

Annunciation with Saints Margaret and Ansanus

1333

Simona Martini and Lippo Memmi

Siena, Duomo

Madonna and Child with Saints

Maesta Alterpiece

Cathedral of Siena, Italy

Duccio

1308-11

Crucifixion and Lamentation

1320-30

Master of the Codex of Saint George

Crucifixion and Saints Nicholas, Bartholomew, Florentius, and Luke,

1315–20.

Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

Palazzo Publico 

Siena

1297-1315

Torre di Mangia 1320-40

Maesta

1315

Simone Martini

Palazzo Pubblico 

Sala del Mappamondo/Consiglio

Allegory of Good Government

North Wall

Palazzo Publico

1338

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Effects of Good Government

East Wall

Palazzo Publico

1338

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Leuven, Town Hall

1448-69

Sulpitius Van Vorst, Jan Keldermans II, and Mattheus de Layens

Belgium

Nine Worthies Tapestries

1400

Alex or Hector (left)

Julius Caesar (right)

Nine Worthies Tapestries

1400 

King Arthur

Nine Worthies Tapestries

1400

Based on Le Voeu du Paon by Jaques de Longuyon

King Aurthur and Julius Caesar and either Hector or Alex

Ivory Casket with Scenes of romances

1330-50

Themes from the Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Castle of Love and Knights Jousting

1330-50

Themes from the Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Luttrell Psalter

1325-35

Psalm 91

Luttrell Psalter 

1325-35

Psalm 108-9

Sir Walter of the Bird Prairie

Codex Manesse

1300-40

Minnesang

Sir Walter from the town of Klingen 

Codex Manesse 

1300-40 

Minnesang

Hardingstone Cross

Northampton

1291-95

¼ Eleanor Montjoies Crosses

St. Stephans Chapel

Palace of Westminster

decorated

before 1292

st. Stephans Chapel

Palace of Westminster

b. 1292

Canopies with ogee arches tracery 

Lierne Vault

vibrant masonry

Ely Cathedral Nave and Crossing

Overseen by Alan Walsingham

1321-49

Octogon - 1322 by William Hurley

Ely Lady Chapel

1321-49

decorated

Alan Walsingham

Ely Cathedral

Decorated Parts 1321-49

William Hurley

tierceron Ribs

lady chapel - literal representation of femininity

Gloucester Presbytery

after 1351

Humphrey Duke of Gloucester

Gloucester Cathedral 

after 1351

Vertical Lines over curvilinear ones

return to simple and pure

Humphey Duke of Gloucester

lierne vaulting

Gloucester Cloisters

1351-64

Earliest Fan Vaults

Divinity School of Oxford

1427-83

William Orchard

Divinity School of Oxford 

1427-83

William Orchard

Perpendicular 

King’s College Chapel

Westminster Palace, Cambridge

1446-1544

Reginald Ely

King’s College Chapel

1446-1544

Founded by King Henry VI 1441

Perpendicular

Cambridge

Betrayal and Arrest of Christ (and jousting a hive)

1324

Hours of Jeanne d’Evreaux

Jean Pucelle

Annunciation (blind mans bluff)

1324

Hours of Jeanne d’Evreaux

Jean Pucelle

Hours of Jeanne d’Evreaux

1324

Jean Pucelle

Portable Alter

Man of Sorrows

1400

13 cm × 13 cm

The Parement de Narbonne

1375

Jean d’Orbais

Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon 

The Parement de Narbonne

Jean d’Orbais

1375

Passion, Crucifixion, and Death to Noli Me Tangere

Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon 

Crucifixion 

before 1349

Prayer book of Jeanne de Luxembourg - Duchess of Normandy

Jean le Noir

Tale of Three Living and Three Dead (momento mori?)

Jean le Noir

before 1349

Prayer book of Jeanne de Luxembourg - Duchess of Normandy

Wound of Christ 

Prayer book of Jeanne de Luxembourg - Duchess of Normandy

Jean le Noir

before 1349

Triumph of Death

Buonamico Buffalmacco

1350 

Caposanto di Pisa

Strozzi Alterpiece

1357

Andrea Orcagna (del Cione)

Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Dance of Death

1425 in Cimitiere les Innocents (todays Les Halles)

Published by Guyot Marchant 1485

Chantry of Bishop Richard Fox 

Winchester Cathedral 

1528

Transi Tomb of Richard Fox

1528

Winchester Cathedral