GOTHIC ART

Lorena Gonzlez
Alejandro Carrillo
Paulina Vivanco
Sebastin Arriola R.
Ashley Becerra
Cristbal Santos

ORIGIN
The Gothic art was developed in France, about the twelfth century and then
was expanded to all Europe, also in Italy are classical influences that still
strong.

Gothic art maintained its popularity until de sixteenth century when it began
to wane as Renaissance.
The hallmarks of Gothic art include such forms as sculpture, paintings (on
panels), and stained glass. Fresco was also an important media for Gothic
artists.

The Gothic period was also famous for its artistic and architectural
innovations such as the flying buttress and pointed arch which allowed
builders to construct taller cathedrals with bigger spaces for glasswork
making these structures appear lighter than previous ones. Some prime
examples of Gothic art include the fifteenth-century altar-piece of St. Marys
Church in Krakow, Ulmer Munsters Garden of Gethsemane. Some important
Gothic artists include Fra Angelico, Simone Martini, Bonaventura Berlinghieri.

SCULPTURE
Gothic sculpture was closely tied to architecture, since it was used primarily
to decorate the exteriors of cathedrals and other religious buildings. The
earliest Gothic sculptures were stone figures of saints and the Holy Family
used to decorate the doorways, or portals, of cathedrals in France and
elsewhere.

The largest and most important of the figures are the over-life-size statues in
the embrasures on either side of the doorways. Because they are attached
to the colonnettes by which they are supported, they are known as statuecolumns.
The earliest surviving statue-columns are those of the west portals of
Chartres that stem from the older pre-Gothic cathedral and that date from
about 1155. The tall, cylindrical figures repeat the form of the colonnettes to
which they are bound

VITRALS
The colors used to illustrate the windows played an important role in the
representation of harmonious atmosphere. Not only that, they shine on its
own through the windows that allow the light of the sun , or God, as it
symbolized into the church and enlighten the hearts of the faithful. The Notre
Dame cathedral of Paris use an effect of large windows to fill the vault, and
hence its unique shape, to the ceiling to allow illuminating colored light
creating a warm atmosphere.

To Christians at the beginning of the second millenium, stained glass

windows provided visual lessons to explain the Church festivals, the life of
Christ, the importance of the Virgin Mary, the prophets, saints, martyrs, and
other Christian themes.

They inspired a sense of devotion and faith, and Sugers hope was that each
window would illumine mens minds so they may travel through it to an
apprehension of Gods light.

ARCHITECTURE
The original Gothic style was actually developed to bring sunshine into
people`s lives, and especially into their churches.
The most fundamental element of the Gothic style architecture is the pointed
arch, which was likely borrowed from Islamic.

The slender columns and lighter systes of thrust allowed for larger Windows
more light.

The history of Gothic architecture and the changing styles of buildings re

characterized by the introduction of stained- glass Windows, gargoyles,
flying buttresses, tall spires and pointed arches.
3 different tyes of English Architecture.
o Early English Gothic Style 1200 to 1300

o Decorated Gothic Styke 1300 to 1400

o Perpendicular Gothic Style 1400 to 1500

LITERATURE
The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole,
whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that
constitute the genre.
Literature of the supernatural often uses recurring themes, images, and
symbols to envision the human condition.

Always mixture good and evil powers that cannot be understand completely
by human reasons.

Gothic elements include the following:

1.

Setting in a castle: Secret passages or doors, rooms, creatures, monsters, vampires, wolfmen, zombies, etc.

2.

An atmosphere of mystery and suspense: Something of unknown precedence happens.

3.

An ancient prophecy: Connected with the castle or the habitants.

4.

Omens, portents, visions: A character has a disturbing dream or vision.

5.

Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events: Dramatic events.

6.

High, even overwrought emotion: Sentimental, surprise, especially horror and terror.

7.

Women in distress: Somethimg happened to a woman, an oppressed heroine.

8.
Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male: Powerful male characters want that girl, but
sometimes she doesnt and they try to force her.
9.

The metonymy of gloom and horror: There are a type of metaphor Doom and gloomKill and die

10.

The vocabulary of the gothic: Using the right words like synonyms (Mistery, diabolical, fear, terror, etc).

PAINTINGS
Gothic painters made their Gothic paintings in frescos, panel paintings,
manuscript illumination and stained glass.
At that time in Europe the painting wasnt a major public art form yet.
Tapestry was still popular as a decorative wall covering. They stopped doing
their paintings on walls and started to make them over wood, altar pieces
and triptychs

The paintings were separated on: diptych (2-part works), triptych (3-part
works) and polyptych (multi-part), and manuscript. To bring the pigments
together, they used egg or glue extracted from animal bones. To bring up the
colors, they used oil. Its lines were hard traced, had intensity of colors and it
was easy to understand. Its main subject were religious, portraits, group
portrait and customs.
The Gothic book illustration had illuminated manuscripts that were founded
on various monasteries from the beginning of the 13th century such as:
Books of Hours, Missals, Apocalypses, Psalters, and Bibles.