HOA2 - Gothic Architecture + Italian Late Medieval

Barbaric

Gothic style reacted against the classic hence it was called _____

True

Gothic style are arranged for convenience rather than for symmetry

Architecture of Light

High ceilings & use of many large windows made the interior airy and bright hence its called “___________”

Plate Tracery

Stones are thicker than glass

Bar Tracery

Glass is thicker than the stone

Grotesque

Chimera figure serves only an ornamental function

Gargoyles

Functional waterspouts to scare off evil spirits

Tracery

An ornamental stonework on the upper part of a Gothic window

Finial

Upper termination of a spire

Crocket

Foliage decoration on the raking of a spire

Pinnacle

A small spire

Steeple

Tower crowned by spire

Retablo/Reredo

Ornamental screen behind an altar

Ogive

Pointed Arch

Ogival system

Vaulting framework of intersecting pointed arch ribs

Chevet

Apse having a surrounding ambulator of which are chapels

Fleche

A slender spire rising from a roof

3 Periods of French Gothic

• Lancette

• Rayonnant

• Flamboyant

Lancette

Identify the French Gothic Period: Pointed arches & geometric tracery windows

Rayonnant

Identify the French Gothic Period: Circular windows with wheel tracery

Flamboyant

Identify the French Gothic Period: Florid style, flame-like window tracery

Smiling Angel of Reims

“Sourire de reims”

Norman Gothic

English Gothic: Semicircular arched windows

Transitional Gothic

Pointed arches replacing the round

Lancet

Long pointed, narrow, lancet windows

Tudor Gothic

Shift from pointed, ornate to the plainer Renaissance style

Tudor Arch

4 centered archj

Oriel Window

Window projecting from the wall

Elizabethan Gothic

Use of mullioned and transomed windows

Early English Vaulting

Quadripartite Ribbed Vault

Decorated Vaulting

• Addition of lierne ribs

• Star-shaped pattern is produced called ‘stellar vaulting’

Perpendicular Vaulting

Stellar vaulting led to the fan

Tudor Vaulting

Use of 4 centered arch and fan vaulting

Boss

Projecting ornament on the intersection of the ribs

Pendant

Sculpted ornament or elongated boss terminating the fan vaulting

Hall churches

Special characteristics of German Gothic, with naves & aisles approximately of the same height without the triforium & clerestory

Manueline Style

Is a rich and lavish architectural ornamentation incorporating maritime elements indigenous to Portugal

Italian Late Medieval Architecture

Features of Churches

• Flatness of roof

• Screen wall of the west facade

• Circular window of the west front

• Absence of pinnacles and flying buttresses

• Stripes or colored marbles instead of moldings

• Small windows without tracery

• Occasional frescoes & mosaics