Gothic Art

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Gothic Art

• Cathedrals become the religious, social and
  cultural centers of growing cities in the 12th
  and 13th centuries

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Gothic trends

• People move from the country to towns cities
  grow
• Church is the most important influence in daily
  life and art
• Cathedrals are built everywhere
• Interiors and exterior richly decorated
• Universities and cathedral schools replace
  monasteries

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Gothic architecture

• began at Royal Abbey at St. Denis, outside
  Paris, built by Abbot Suger in 1140

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Chartres Cathedral

• Gothic architecture spread to Chartres, then
  Paris and to rest of France and Northern Europe
• Chartres was built 1145-1220
• Towers built 50 years apart and different

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Chartres

• Flying buttresses
• Clerestory windows
• Rose window
• Vertical height

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Stained glass windows
Windows replace walls
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Stained Glass at Chartres

• Color glows on stone walls
• Cartoon provides design and template
• Stone tracery acts as support
• Reds and blues dominate
• Details painted

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Chartres sculpture

• More than 2,000 sculptures
• Initially close relationship to architectural
  framework
• Later sculptures more in the round

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Geometric secrets of Chartres
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Notre Dame, Paris

• begun 1163, never completed

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Reims Cathedral, France

• Built 1229-1239 AD
• Rose window replaces tympanum
• Towers are carved stone openings of delicate
  tracery

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Cathedral of Amiens, France

• begun 1220 AD
• Climax of Gothic architecture
• Nave height more than 137 feet
• Ribs from floor to ceiling
• Windows immense

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Cologne, Germanybegun 1248 AD
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Salisbury Cathedral, Englandbegun 1220 AD
Cloisters (covered walkway)
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Wells Cathedral, England
Early 14th centuryscissor arch and fan vaulting
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Siena Cathedralbegun 1284 AD

• Zebra striped marble
• Doges Palace, Venice

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High Altar Cathedral of Toledo, Spain

• built 1498-1504
• 15 events in the life of Christ

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Gothic sculpture
Toothache, capital sculpture, Wells, UK
MadonnaHans Tilman Riemenschneidser
Claus SluterMoses, 1395
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Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts

• The annunciation (Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary
  she will be the mother of Christ)

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Gothic Painters
Giotto Duccio
Simone Martini
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Giotto 1267-1337LamentationArena
ChapelPadua
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Duccio1278-1319Descent from the Cross
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Simone Martiniabout 1284-1344
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Gentile da FabrianoInternational
Style1370-1427The Adoration of the Magi