Art History
AP Art History
Gothic Art
Hundred Years’ War
Babylonian Captivity
Black Death
Gothic Architecture
Chartres Cathedral flank
Westminster Hall
Gothic Sculpture
Great Portals of the West Façade
Röttgen Pietà
Gothic Painting
Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere
Our Lady of the Beautiful Window
Scenes from the Apocalypse
Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and Louis IX of France
Jewish Art
Golden Haggadah
12th
The first church to have flying buttresses as part of the original design
Christian church dedicated to the Virgin Mary; a Marian shrine.
Importance of the church reflected in the speed of construction: 27 years.
Part of a complex that included a school, a bishop’s palace, and a hospital.
Meant for grand ceremonial occasions: coronations, feasts.
Later used as a law court to dispense justice..
Hammerbeam style roof; made of oak; beams curve to meet in the center of the ceiling like a corbelled arch.
These portals were used by church hierarchy, not commoners, as the entry to the church.
Called Royal Portals because the jamb sculptures depict kings and queens from the Old Testament
Three portals linked by lintels and 24 capitals that contain the life of Christ
Christ emaciated, drained of all blood, all tissue, all muscle.
Originally vividly painted, some paint survives.
This work shows the humanizing of religious themes
An Andachtsbild
Part of a lancet stained-glass window in Chartres Cathedral.
Color patterns on the cathedral's gray stone represent the divine.
Bands across the surface are typical of Early Gothic stained glass.
From a Bible moralisée (Moralized Bible), Gothic Europe
Eight medallions; format derives from the stained-glass windows.
Luminosity of text a reflection of stained-glass windows; strong black outlining of forms.
Moralized Bible
Blanche of Castile, mother and regent to the king
Made of illuminated manuscript, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
teenage king Louis IX
older monk dictates to younger scribe
56 miniatures; gold leaf background
This Haggadah was used primarily at home
Two unknown artists, probably Christian
Painted around the Barcelona area of Spain.
This illustrates the plague of the first-born.
In the upper-right scene, a man is struck by an angel's sword;
In the left scene, the queen mourns her baby lying lifeless on a nurse's lap;
The third scene, not recorded in the Bible, probably represents the funeral of the first-born.