Amiens Cathedral, Somme, France, 1220 - 1400s

Notre-Dame d’Amiens, Somme, France

 gothic Art
1140 CE - 1550 CE

Gothic masters lauded the proportions of their

churches as a harmonious reflection of divine order.

Soaringly graceful,
a new skeletal system- enabling large windows to
take the place of solid areas of wall,

France - England - Germany

Prophets and Ancestors of Christ
Old Testament Figures
Saints and Bishops
Chartres Cathedral, Notre-Dame d’Chartres,
France, 1134 - 1220 CE
 gothic Art
1140 CE - 1550 CE

Italian Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari reviled

(criticized in an angrily insulting manner) the
architecture of the period as Maniera dei Goti -
Characteristic of the Goths; it had lost all sense of
proportion, just as the Barbarian Goths had no sense
of classical Greek order.
 gothic Art
1140 CE - 1550 CE

On the contrary, architectural masterpieces,

with feats only attained by the artists of that era,
with love for light and soaring heights
sublime imitation of the heavens or the desires to
reach to
Characteristics

. predominant vertical lines

. Light as an integral part of the architectural design
. Pointed Arches, Tower Arches
. Rose Window
. Stained Glass
. Flying Buttresses
. elaborated/pointed Tympanum
. Latin cross plan/
. Sculptural ornamentations, Gargoyles
. Archivolts
. Tracery, Gables, Trefoil, Quatrefoil
. Colonnette
. Spires, Pinnacle, Finials, Crocket
gothic Art
. Clerestory, Triforium
1140 CE - 1550 CE
. Rib Vaulting/ Fan Vaulting
Notre- Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1163 CE - 1270 CE
Reims Cathedral, Reims 1211 - 60 CE ,1406 - 28 CE
Domenico Quaglio (1787 - 1837), katedra w Reims
The Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1243 - 48 CE - 1490 - 95 CE
The Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1243 - 48 CE - 1490 - 95 CE
Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, England, 1070 CE, 1834 CE
Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, England, 1070 CE, 1834 CE
Canterbury Cathedral Cloisters, Kent, England
Canterbury Cathedral Cloisters, Kent, England
Sailsbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England, 1220 CE, 1284 CE
Sailsbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England, 1220 CE, 1284 CE
Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England, 1270 CE, 1366 CE
Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England, 1270 CE, 1366 CE
Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England, 1270 CE, 1366 CE
Milan Cathedral, Italy, 1386 CE, 1805 CE
Cologne Cathedral,
Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus,
Cologne, Germany,
1248 CE, 1880 CE
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Similarities with Differences with
Romanesque Romanesque
 Romanesque Gothic
Vaults Barrel, Groin Rib, Fan, Cloister
Arch Round Pointed
Main Vault
Thick walls, Butresses Exterior Flying Bytresses
Support
Clerestory for Large Stained glass
Small windows
light windows
Horizontal, modest
Elevation Vertical, soaring
height

Plain, little decoration, Ornate, delicate, lots of

Exterior
Solid sculptures

more life-like, although

Sculptures Thin, less-lifelike
elongated
Mood Dark, Gloomy Tall, bright, light

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Washington National Cathedral 1906 -1988 CE
 Not Me

Johnny Depp, Dark Shadows, 2012 conspicuously dark, mysterious, antiquated, morbid