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Art Sumthin Flashcards

1
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In Rural Areas
•  Cruciform
•  Front Faces West
•  Narthex, Nave Transept
•  Tower at Crossing
•  Sacred Relics
•  Side Aisles/ Ambulatory
•  Extensions on Apse and Transept
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pilgrimage church floor plan

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  • Thick Walls
  • Little Light / Small Windows
  • All Stone / No Timber • Semi-Circular Arches
  • Vaulted Ceilings
  • Extensions Before & After the Nave
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Romanesque Features

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Thick and Heavy

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Norman Style Thick and Heavy

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Norman Style example

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St. John’s Chapel, London

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5
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Numerous Towers

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German Style

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6
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German Style ex.

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Speyer Cathedral,

Speyer Germany

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7
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Great Diversity

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Italian Style

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It. Style ex.

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Pisa Cathedral group

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9
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Echo Singing in the Baptistery at Pisa

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baptism-like area with statue in the middle

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10
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Ambulatory, microtranscript, nave, narthex in the shape of Jesus (not cruciform)

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Plan of third abbey church of cluny

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11
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Church with Big Tower sticking up in the middle

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St. Sernin Basilica

East End

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12
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Clusterform columns found in

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third abbey church of cluny

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13
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Romanesque elevation

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nave-arcade pier-arch, trifourm, clerestory

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14
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Tympanum over Central Portal

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St. Lazarus Cathedral, Autun, France

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15
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two circles and jesus

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Mandorla

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16
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church of la madelie scultupres, 1130

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Angel Killing Eldest Son of Pharoh and Moses/St. Paul Grinding corn

17
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Ambulatory capital (random staues with black)

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third abbey church of cluny

18
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Gothic Style

Primarily Architectural especially

A

Cathedrals

19
Q

Gothic - Begins in _____ 1140 and spreads to the rest of Europe in the following century.

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France

20
Q 
1st example of Gothic Style
•  Invented by Abbot Suger
•  Combines features which establish the style
Early Gothic
•  Near Paris
•  Where St. Denis fell
•  Built by Abbot Suger
A

St. Denis cathedral

21
Q

Thin Arches of stone
• Crossing diagonally
• Were thinner and lighter
• Allowed for more versatility

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Ribbed Vaulting

22
Q

More Vertical
• Thrust weight
directly downward
• Could span various distances and remain the same height

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pointed arches

23
Q

The Gothic style was invented to use light

• Suger thought colored light was holy

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stained glass

24
Q

Façade faces West
• Lofty Clerestory
• Elevation consists of 3 almost equal levels • Cult of Our Lady

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Cruciform Floor Plan

25
Q

GothicelevationsfromEarlytoHigh

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Loan, Paris, Charttes, Amiens

26
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163-1250
• Cult of Our Lady
• Early Gothic
• Sculpture subordinate to Architecture

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Notre Dame, Paris

27
Q

embedded in the pavement of the
Parvis Notre-Dame outside the entrance to the cathedral on the Ile de la Cité., marks the official centre of Paris and the Kilometre Zero from which all French metropolitan roads beginning in Paris are measured.

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bronze star

28
Q

Island in the Seine river

• Provides unique focus for the city

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Ile de la Cité.

29
Q

built into the ends of the gutters to drain rainwater off the roof

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gargoyles

30
Q

Complexities and experiments of Early Gothic resolved
• Additional heights gained
• Lofty Clerestory
• Asymmetry is often the result
• Popular Pride-importance according to size & magnificence of Cathedral

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high gothic period

31
Q

The West Façade is the result of salvage & rebuilding after a fire
• 4 centuries separate the earliest part from the latest
• Stylistic difference between the spires-the latest style & technology was favored
• Flaws are seen: *proportions of the portals compared to the whole façade *The rose window is off center *Gallery Arcade is awkwardly joined at the right tower
• Despite the flaws it is unified and harmonious though asymmetrical

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Notre Dame Chartres

32
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are dwarfed by the massive size of the façade.

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grand portals

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