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Ground Plan of A Gothic Cathedral: Chartres
Ground Plan of A Gothic Cathedral: Chartres
The flying buttress transfers the thrust of the stone roof from the thin nave wall downwards and outwards, enabling the architect to open up
the walls into huge stained- glass panels.
Rose Window and lancets
north transept of Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
ca. 1220
stained glass
rose approximately 43 ft. in diameter
ISSEMINATION OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
Notre Dame
Pierrefont
LATE GOTHIC PERIOD
The Late Gothic is the bridge between the Middle Age and the Renaissance. The Crusades
and trade that followed from them brought an influx of Byzantine art and artists to western
Europeans. This influence appears strongly in the emotionalism of a large wooden crucifixes
and icons
PAINTING
In Flanders, two brothers, Jan and
Hubert Van Eyck, were working during
the first part of the 15th century. They
were the first to make use of
atmosphere in their paintings. The
picture The Arnolfini Portrait is by Jan,
the more famous of the brothers. This
little picture is one of the earliest to
give us the feeling that the figures are
standing in space.
Romanesque in Italy
David, by Donatello
Italian sculptor Donatello executed his David, the first
nude statue of the Renaissance, about 1430-1435. This
nearly life-size bronze image of the biblical hero was
also the first statue since classical antiquity to be cast
in the round. Its realism marked a departure from the
Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise
conventions of Gothic sculpture, which mostly
The Gates of Paradise are bronze doors created by
produced rigid, columnar figures.
Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti between
1425 and 1452 for the east entrance to the baptistery of
the Florence Cathedral in Italy.
Ascension by Giotto
Italian painter Giotto
dedicated an early 13th-
century fresco cycle in
the Scrovegni Chapel in
Padua, Italy, to the life of
Jesus Christ. This panel
showing the ascension of
Jesus is taken from the
New Testament account
in the Acts of the
Apostles. Christ ascends
into heaven on a cloud,
hidden from the apostles
below. Two men in white
robes then
announce to the apostles
that Christ will one day
return to Earth.
Madonna and Child, tempera on wood by Italian
artist and monk Fra Filippo Lippi, was painted about Masaccio’s Expulsion from Paradise
1455. It is an example of Renaissance painting, in Expulsion from Paradise (about 1427) is one of six frescoes painted by
which layers of transparent paint are built up slowly Masaccio for the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine,
to achieve a luminous effect. The deep space in the Florence, Italy. The fresco was influential for its realism, especially the
background is also typically Renaissance; in this case, simplicity and three-dimensionality of the figures, and for the
the landscape is probably the Arno River valley in dramatic depiction of the plight of Adam and Eve.
Italy.
PIERO della FRANCESCA SANDRO BOTTICELLI
Federigo da Montefeltro
Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli painted La Primavera (Spring) about 1478 for
the Medici family. It now hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The painting’s visual
appeal lies in a sensual interplay of shape, color, and rhythm, but interpretations of its
meaning derive from Neoplatonic philosophy and Renaissance symbolism.
Venus of Urbino was painted by the Renaissance artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) in 1538. The pose was taken from an earlier painting by
Giorgione and is a re-creation of the classical Greek nude. This painting embodies the rich color and tone for which Titian was famous; its
pictorial composition is flawless.
Mona Lisa (1503-1506), painted by the Italian artist Leonardo
da Vinci, was also known as La Gioconda, possibly referring to
the subject’s husband, banker Zanobi del Giocondo
The ceiling
1508-12
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican
THE CEILING’S CLOSEUPS
Louvre in Paris.
Former royal palace, built 1546-1999. Nowadays museum.
Notre Dame in Paris.
• Books done in the most fancy way were called 'Illuminated
Manuscripts.'
• Illuminated because it seemed light was coming from them,
and manuscripts because they were all one of a kind
Works of breugel
Vertumnus Flora
1590-1591 c.1591
Oil on wood Oil on wood
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Private collection, Paris,
Sweden France
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