GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

ABBOT SUGER

French abbot and adviser to Kings Louis VI and VII used what would come to be known as gothic techniques including rib vaulting, raised buttresses and pointed arches.

Undefined

Barbaric

Non-roman

Characteristics of Gothic

Pointed Arches

Very linear

Tall and slender in appearance

Very decorative

Gothic Architecture Outside

Stress lines

The direction in which an arch distributes the pressure above it

Bright and airy

high ceilings

Very decorative

Lots of windows

Stained glass windows

Pointed arches

Vertical and slender in appearance

Gothic Architecture inside

Ribs

were the extra support in the vaults.

Pointed Arch

It i s simply known as the Gothic Arch and was reconstructed from cylindrical vault of Roman architecture.

Counterfort

Buttresses are also known as

Arc-boutant

Flying-buttresses are also known as

Blue color in stained glass symbolizes

Heaven

RED color in stained glass symbolizes

Blood of christ

Laon Cathedral

Amiens Cathedral

St Maclou, Rouen

Early Gothic

High Gothic

Late/Flamboyant Gothic

Periods of Gothic

Lancet arch

Equilateral arch

Flamboyant arch

Depressed arch

Types of gothic arches

Lancet Arch

The simplest shape is the long opening with a pointed arch known in England

Equilateral arch

In other words, when the arch is drafted, the radius is exactly the width of the opening and the centre of each arch coincides with the point from which the opposite arch springs.

Flamboyant arch

Is one that is drafted from four points

Depressed arch

A four centered arch is much wider than its height and gives the visual effect of having been flattened under pressure.

Fan vault

A form of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly.

Roman-Romanesque

Lancet early english

Lancet with hoodmould and quatrefoil

Lancet with tracery decorated

Equilateral

Cinquefoil

Ogee

Four-Centered