Shubhrata Sahare

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Mrigakshi Deb
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Nandini Shirbhate
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"And then God said let there be light and there was light" - theTanvi
Biblical
Pophali
quotation renders Gothic Architecture and its churches as the most
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GOTHIC divine architecture ever"
Shubhi Mittal
Architecture 2021BARC073
"And then God said let there be light
and there was light" - the Biblical
quotation renders Gothic
Architecture and its churches as the
most divine architecture ever."
Gothic: Introduction
• Word Origin: Germanic Tribe Goth = Barbaric
• Soaring arches - man to heaven
• Walls to Screens of Glass
• Sources of Light: Side-aisles, Clerestory
• 'This is the House of God and the Gate of
Heaven' says the psalmist Suger

https://www.re-
thinkingthefuture.com
/travel-and-
architecture/a6886-
15-best-examples-of-
gothic-architecture-
around-the-world/

https://w
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photo/go
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pointed-
arch.html
https://artincontext.org/gothic-
French • Coincided with France's political and
economic expansion.
• Perfect symmetry of nave & choir
• Soaring thin columns stretching to
heaven
• Vaults incandescent with 'un-created
Godhead light’
Pointed • Vast traceried clerestory
Amiens Cathedral Plan Arches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiens_
Cathedral
Abbey of St. Denis

Flamboyant west rose Amiens Cathedral

window
Elaborate Interior Thin Ribbed Vaults
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13201/basili https://www.britannica.com/topic/
ca-of-saint-denis-main-altar/ Amiens-Cathedral
British/ English • The Lancet openings of windows and
decorative arcading
• Crowned with a fire-resisting covering under
wooden roof
• The first Gothic Cathedral in England
• Carved capitals in foliate, "stiff-leaf" style.
• Largest stained glass collection in England
Wells Cathedral Plan

Wells Cathedral

York Cathedral Plan

Pointed Stonework Arcade

South Transept
Carved Capitals Rose Window
York Minster Cathedral Heart of Yorkshire
Germany, Spanish & Central Europe
(Belgium & Netherlands)
• Excessively intricate & elaborate (florid)
ornamentation
• Mostly Borrowed directly from France
• Single-span vaulted interiors.
• Broad wall surfaces, horizontal lines popular

Seville Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral Santa Maria del Mar Flying Buttresses

 • Absence of pinnacles and flying buttresses
Italian • Elaborate Projecting entrance
• Herringbone masonry dome
• Absence of a triforium, buttresses and pinnacles
• 56 Panelled Inlaid marble mosaic floor

Herringbone Dome Rose Window

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

Herringbone Bond Florence Duomo Plan Florence Cathedral

Siena Cathedral
3 Black & White Striped Portals Plan Siena Cathedral
Gothic: Conclusion
• Preserved basic cruciform plan
• Nave- processions, Side chapel-
Private Mass
• Higher varied vaults without massive
masonry
• Wall Space for Sculpture, Painting &
Glass
Typical Gothic Interior

“In this way, an architectural synthesis

was created, coherent in structure and
detail, and capable of inspiring a vision
of ultimate truth and reality.”

- Patrick Nuttgens, The Story of

Architecture, Phaidon Press Ltd. (1995)

Stained Glass Window

Pointed Arches
Bibliography
• Sir Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture, CBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd. (1996)
• Rolf Toman, The Art of Gothic, Konemann (2004)
• Patrick Nuttgens, The Story of Architecture, Phaidon Press Ltd. (1995)
• Sir Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student,
Craftsman, and the Amateur, Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ld., Printers (1905)
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architecture-around-the-world/
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