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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)