Chapter 9: Gothic Architecture

A characteristic of the Salisbury Cathedral is that _____?

it incorporates features from monastic plans in a long, orthogonal building.

Identify the elements original to Gothic buildings

1. Windows with tracery

2. Piers composed of colonnettes

3. Flying buttresses

Identify the true statements about Gothic buildings

1. The style of the Gothic buildings can be seen as a reflection of the historical era in which it arose.

2. They are connected to theological analogies to Old Testament tabernacles.

Pointed arches of Gothic structures are probably a contribution from _____ architecture.

Islamic

A feature of Gothic buildings is that they _____.

are connected to temples and concepts of New Jerusalem

In Gothic architecture, the decorative intersecting stonework in the upper sections of windows is known as window _____.

tracery

What was the first monument of the High Gothic?

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Chartres

Identify the characteristics of the Sainte-Chapelle

1. Its upper chapel is surrounded by stained glass windows with bar tracery in the new rayonnant style.

2. Its wall buttresses are linked together horizontally by iron tie-rods.

3. Its upper chapel is filled with jewel-like color by walls diminished to slender piers.

A building designer in the Middle Ages was usually called a(n) _____.

Master Builder or Master Mason

A feature of the Lincoln Cathedral is that _____.

It has varied vaulting systems

The Hall Church is a characteristic of _____ Gothic.

German

Identify the "secrets" of the masons in the medieval period.

1. Knowledge of how to use figures to generate proportional lines.

2. Principles of plane and solid geometry.

In Gothic architecture, the _____ period, extending from about 1250 until about 1370, uses vaulting elaborated with extra ribs, called tierceron and lierne, or decorative, ribs, and window tracery worked into trefoil (three part) or quatrefoil (four part) cusped shapes, intersecting lines, or flowing curvilinear shapes.

Decorated

The final phase of Gothic architecture in England, extending from about 1330 until 1540, is known as _____.

the Perpendicular period.

Identify the attributes of S. Maria Novella in Florence

1. Four square chapels opening off the transept gives the church structural clarity.

2. A connection to the classical orders is evident in the half-colums engaged in the slender piers of the arcade.

3. The nave consists of nearly square bays and a square crossing the chancel.

Italy's largest and most ambitious Gothic church is _____.

Milan Cathedral

Identify the architectural features of the King's College Chapel.

1. The structure was built with a simpler plan and smaller area to reduce reverberation.

2. The chapel is rectangular in plan, with Perpendicular tracery in the large windows and majestic fan vaults overhead.

3. The woodwork of the choir screen contains classical detail in what is otherwise a late medieval building.

_____ was the theoretical core of medieval architecture.

Geometry

Identify a feature of St. Barbara at Kunta Hora

Intricate net vaulting in the choir was joined in the nave by flowing ribs that emerge near the piers to swirl into six-petal forms.

Identify a true statement about the Ely Castle.

The tower of the cathedral, replaced by a lantern in wood, increased the light and usable space at the crossing.

What is a feature of the cathedral of Notre-Dame at Laon?

The pointed arch is incorporated into the profile of the diagonal ribs of the sexpartite vaults.

The choir at the Canterbury Cathedral was designed to house England's most popular shrine, that of _____.

St. Thomas a Becket

Identify the information that was present in Villard de Honnecourt's earliest surviving documentation from the medieval period.

1. Sculpture and carved ornament, nature sketches, and church plans

2. Geometry problems and their solutions and timber roof trusses

3. Sketches of details from cathedrals at Laon, Chartres, and Reims

A true statement about St. George Church in Nordlingen is that _____.

aisle windows are treated as punched openings

An attribute of the cathedral of St. Etienne at Bourges is that _____.

flying buttresses follow the slope of the cathedral's roofs

The plan of the cathedral of St. Etienne at Bourges shares features with _____.

Notre-Dame in Paris

Which structure is known for its hammer-beam roof?

The Westminster Hall

In which region around Paris did the Gothic style originate?

lle-de-France

What is a feature of the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris?

The west front, a splendid study in proportions, has a solid, almost military quality.

What is true of the Early English Gothic architecture?

Windows have lancet-shaped heads

What is generally recognized as the first Gothic building?

The Abbey church of St. Denis

The Milan Cathedral is unlike most other Italian Gothic churches because _____.

it lacks a sense of spatial openness.

The north transept of the new cathedral of Notre-Dame was built from 1246 to 1257 to the designs of _____.

Jean de Chelles