Cathedrals

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Cathedrals
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What is a cathedral?
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How many cathedrals remain in France?
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What was most important in the design of a
cathedral?
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When were most French cathedrals built?
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Two big words

• Romanesque

• Gothic

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What does Romanesque mean?
Like Roman
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What does Gothic mean?
like the Goths, that is, the Barbarians
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What style is this Cathedral?

• Cathedral at Angouleme

How can you tell?
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And this one?
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What shape is a cathedral?
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What is the long part called?
The Nave What style is it?
Gothic
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What style?
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What is the cross-piece called?
The Transept
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What style is this sculpture?
Romanesque Greed with his moneybags
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What style is this?
Gothic Old Testament Figures
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What style is this?
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What style is this?
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The top of a pillar What style?
Romanesque
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What is this?
A cloister
What style?
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What is under the cathedral?
The Crypt
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What is in the crypt?
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What is this?
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Cathedrals are often full of these. What is it?
A reliquary, said to contain the bones of the
three kings.
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Another reliquary
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Gothic buildings have thinner walls. How do they
stay up?
Flying Buttresses
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How does a flying buttress work?
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So what can you do with thinner walls?
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Add glass
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Modern stained glass in the old cathedral at Reims
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Gothic Style still survives here
Boston College
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And so does the Romanesque
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