Short essay questions Gothic Quizz

Sketchbook of Villiard D’Honnecourt: 13th c Classical sculpture; Christ in Majesty & Dragon

Cathedral of Reims. Classical Style or “Loop fold or classical style”. Classical prototypes transmitted by architects/Master Masons-1250

• Rise of Architect and Sculptor - changes in social position and education in gothic period

• How sketchbook of Villiard D’Honnecourt show the way classical models made their way into buildings like Reims

• How literate masons recorded and transmitted the work they saw

• Rise of Architect and Sculptor - changes in social position and education in gothic period

  • Architects and sculptors shifted from anonymous to a recognized profession that could provide fame

  • their training shift from a hands-on apprenticeship to including literacy to intertwine the deeper messages that want to be conveyed

  • gained a higher social standing

• How sketchbook of Villiard D’Honnecourt show the way classical models made their way into buildings like Reims

  • sculptors used the same classical drapery patterns and figural types seen in the sketchbook

  • sketchbook was used as a portable manual for masons for them to replicate stuff in stone

• How literate masons recorded and transmitted the work they saw

  • the books were templates for drapery and figure types

  • books showed the geometry and proportion diagrams

• How does Louis IX’s palace chapel express the intimate the relationship between the monarchy and religion?

• How does the king coopt sanctity through this building, and in other ways in Paris

• How does Louis IX’s palace chapel express the intimate the relationship between the monarchy and religion?

  • was made to be a reliquary for relics as well as the kings and families own bodys

• How does the king coopt sanctity through this building, and in other ways in Paris

  • getting the crown of thorns made Louis IX gave him religious prestige

  • created the extravagant gold image to compete with notre dame

  • processions with his relics went around to churches in paris parading the crown of thorns

  • began making his own chapels in the city

• Discuss the Medieval idea of Courtly Love as it is seen in these works. Ivory Caskets –France, 14thc

• The “Siege of the Castle of Love” - Courtly Love Ideals

  • an allegory of courtship framed as mock warfare

  • women throw flowers at the men sieging the castle

  • women in the castle have the power to choose compared to the men sieging the castle

  • hopkins says maidens in the “palace of Love” decide which suitors are worthy to enter and “repulse the unworthy far from the court of Love.”

  • lovers siege the beloveds hearts

Cathedral of St. Vitus of Prague, 14th Century Architects: Mathias of Arras and Peter Parler

Röttgen Pieta 14th century

• How could these two works of art and architecture be seen to reflect a similar cultural attitude?

• Can you suggest some reasons why?

• How both represent the suffering and the illogical times they were made

  • Iconography of Christ in marys arms fresh off the cross was adapted to depicts him suffering from the plague

  • Hanging keystones and fan vaults provide no support to the structure and dont show where weight is going making them illogical

    • Reasons why

  • 100 year war

  • Schism between the church and the monarchies

  • black plague

How do these images provide a vision of the Social theory of the patron for whom it was made?

• Social theory

  • everything in the society is a beautiful performance

    • wanting to act out life as if “life regulated like a noble game”

• presentation

  • romantic castle of patrons in the back - romanticizing him

  • surfs in the foreground being silly and bending over to work - pregnant lady

    • but they are fulfilling their duty to him and doing work well as baskets are full