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38 Cards in this Set
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Abraham and the Three Angels, Gothic, 1250
emulates stained glass colors and gothic cathedral's lightness |
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Amiens Cathedral, 1225, High Gothic
super ornate, direct commentary on the super stable romanesque pieces archvaults are super deep and layered everything keeps getting taller, compete with eachother |
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Amiens Cathedral, 1225, High Gothic
super ornate, direct commentary on the super stable romanesque pieces archvaults are super deep and layered everything keeps getting taller, compete with eachother |
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Bamberg Rider, High Gothic, 1250
earliest medieval equestrian statue, very Carolingian, less ornate, but shrouded in this detailed little lampshade thing individualized royal portrait. |
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Blanche of Castile, High Gothic, 1250
gold, ornate, assembly line style of production organized and uniform |
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Carcassonne, High Gothic, 1200
example of typical french set up with cathedral, castle, city, wall etc. all together extremely fortified |
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Chartres Cathedral, 1200, Early Gothic
had a relic of mary's clothing starting to get competitive with gothic architecture stole idea of gothic style from san denis and then made it even better, built it gothic from the ground has two spires, later one is more ornate and more late gothic |
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Chartres Cathedral, 1200, Early Gothic
has a triforium, a gallery but with kinda some space to walk in, no functional, but broke up the HUGE stone wall and made the room lighter Piers are still there, but decorated with clustering collonettes now has flying buttresses too to support the stained glass, but still be light feeling |
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Chartres Cathedral, Early Gothic, 1200
transepts are lower down, focus is on apse and ambulatory which opens space up also has apsidal chapels, expanding on earlier practicality ideas three entrances: one for royalty (main), one for clergy, and one for ley people |
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Chartres Cathedral, 1200, Early Gothic
huge circle window is the rose window has mary with jesus in center, MARYOLOGY stained glass windows mostly too high for people to see the actual scene, not didactic but instead creates a transcendental space, great lighting shows images of people building Chartres, shows commitment |
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Chartres Cathedral, 1200, Early Gothic,
Tympanum of the Royal entrance, this was the front entrance, had three tympanums middle is of jesus with evangelists right is enthroned Madonna and child left is enthroned jesus all three have enthroned jesus, just like royalty who enter doors all on the jambs are old testament queens and kings, less abstracted than the romanesque old prophet trumeaux drapery is more realistic, bodies more there, more classical, relates to Scholasticism which is going back to aristotle/other classical ideas and applying them TO GOD |
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Cologne Cathedral, 1250, Holy Roman Empire Gothic
one of the longest building processes ever, but really lived up to the most gothic of standards, super high light long windows |
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Gloucester Cathedral, 1350, English Gothic
somewhat romanesque but with gothic accents barrel vaulted nave, one HUGE window very perpendicular plan very structurally clear |
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God as Creator of the World, 1250, High Gothic
this particular part of the folio focuses on geometry and the mathematic side of creating the world god with his compass |
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Gothic Rib Vault
can have a semicircular or point arch very flexible, allows for many different building shapes |
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Hall of the Cloth Guild, 1250, High Gothic,
example of a medieval secular structure....built similarly because it had to compete with the spectacular cathedrals |
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Sacrifice of Isaac, 1200, Holy Roman Empire Gothic,
twisty dynamic figures, gold and blue |
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Laon Cathedral, 1200, Early Gothic
Huge rose window in front had triforium, typical, broke up huge wall very traditional high gothic structure |
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Laon Cathedral, 1200, Early Gothic
Huge rose window, very deep porches, becoming far more dramatic than romanesque |
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Ekkehard and Uta, 1250, Holy Roman Empire
very individualized portraits even though they were so long dead very clear body shapes and expressions, subtle soft sculpting |
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Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux, 1350, High Gothic
very valuable, careful, goldsmiths greatly revered this was actually a relic too |
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Notre Dame west façade, 1200, Early Gothic
has two façades, one early, one late both have rose window, south has taller more delicate and pointy spires, east is more square, geometric and stable, the rose window on the south facade takes up more space and there is basically no stone on that wall at all, glass wherever possible, looks like lace, called TRACERY |
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Reims Cathedral, 1250, High Gothic,
similar to Amiens but had a rose window instead of a tympanum, breaks up the wall even more and makes it lighter as little stone as possible |
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Reims jambs statues, 1250, High Gothic,
like the old testament kings and queens, but more classical, less columnar, better drapery/body shapes, also less structural and truly more decorate (ornate), shows the full narrative of the annunciation, Gothic classicsim and scholasticism have very individual faces. |
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St. Denis Tympanum, 1200, Early Gothic
has him as a patron Tympanum=very typical romanesque, but shows patronage |
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Saint Chapelle, 1250, High Gothic (Rayonnant Style)
ceiling is painted blue with gold stars full of luxury and elegance, tons of stained glass filling whole wall not super tall, but barely any wall space, all window |
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St. Denis Plan, Early Gothic, 1200
was a romanesque church, Abbot Suger tried to make it a spiritual/pilgrimage site, changed the apse, added more little chapels (apsidal) for pilgrims, more integrated and open apse/ambulatory, way wider |
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St. Denis, Early Gothic, 1200
wants to make church more transcendental, somewhere between heaven and earth lightens it up, more buttresses on outside to support windows |
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Church of St. Elizabeth, Holy Roman Empire, 1250
incorporates french ribbed vaults wider nave with less divisions, more light though less dramatic than french/english gothic |
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Saint-Maclou, Late Gothic (Flamboyant), 1500
EXTREME, in the delicacy and cutting away of stone, curved front, really just a façade in front like the architecture is alive |
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Salisbury Cathedral, English Gothic, 1250
not super tall, but instead just has one very tall spire 449 ft long 81 ft high |
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Salisbury Cathedral, English Gothic, 1250
wider than most French Cathedrals has TWO TRANSCEPTS focus on length not height still transcendent with the journey down the lonnngg nave |
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Shrine of the Three Kings, Holy Roman Empire Gothic, 1200
6 ft long reliquary, shape resembles church, SUPER luxurious repoussé of old testament prophets helped to create an extravagant other worldly feel. |
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Death of a Virgin Tympanum, Holy Roman Empire Gothic, 1250
expresses serious sorrow through dramatic poses/gesture 12 apostles around virgin art becoming more humanized and natural, artist looking for emotional reaction from viewer |
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Castle of Love, High Gothic, 1350
example of luxury in homes, ivory, super expensive etc shoes reliefs about the romances/knights of the day |
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Sketchbook page, Gothic, 1250
artist sketchbook, trying to show that all nature's shapes are made up of geometric shapes looking for simplistic shapes in everything |
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Röttgen Pieta, Holy Roman Empire Gothic, 1300
Super grieving, distorted body of Christ shows the interest in emotion/pain and grief of mary and christ |
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Westminster Abbey, English Gothic, 1250
SUPER intricate ceiling |