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Opus Francigenum

The style was originally referred to as “French Work

Gothic

The term____was coined by the Italian art historian and architect Giorgio Vasari, dismissed the style as a “barbarous German

manner” symbolic of the fall of the Western Roman Empire

Gothic style

Giorgio Vasari, dismissed the style as a “barbarous German

manner” symbolic of the fall of the Western Roman Empire

GOTHIC

The word originated from the GOTHS, the first Germanic tribes that

sacked Rome in 410 AD

Gothic architecture

is a style that reacted against the classic; hence it

was called ‘barbaric’

Suger

was a French abbot, statesman, and historian who was

widely credited with creating the style as an expression of the

growing power of the monarch

tracery windows

A tracery is an ornamental stonework on the

upper part of a gothic window

divine pouring in from above.

light pouring through the stained glass

Plate Tracery

tracery uses thick areas of stone to separate glazed areas

Bar Tracery

tracery is composed of thin stone

finial

is the decorative upper termination of a spire

crocket

is the foliage decoration on the raking of a spire

Grotesques or Chimeras

ornamental in function only

Gargoyles

functional waterspouts and believed to scare off evil

spirits)