HIST - Gothic (Pointed Arches) Flashcards
elegant, highly decorated, and characterized by the use of sumptuous, colorful materials, while in Architecture, it focused on churches and cathedrals
Gothic Art
the method of teaching but dominated the schools of Western Europe; students were taught to argue from reason, experience, and authority
Scholasticism
_________ invented Gothic style when he designed the facade, ambulatory, and chapels of the ___________
Abbot Suger - Royal Abbey Church of St. Denis
a painting technique in which pigments are combined with egg
Tempera Technique
colored glass made by mixing metallic oxides into molten, translucent glass or fixing oxides
Stained Glass
his original name is ____________; the last great Italian artist in the Byzantine style which dominated early medieval painting in Italy
Cimabue - real name: Bencivieni di Pepo
a student of Cimabue, he is the most important Italian painter whose works point to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later; he is the Grandfather of Renaissance Art
Giotto
the home church of a bishop, from the Greek word _________ meaning “seat” or “throne”
Cathedral - greek word: Kathedra
a circular window with tracery mullions radiating from a central point
Rose Window
exterior structure composed of thin half-arches, or flyers; supported the wall at the point where the thrust of an interior arch was greatest
Flying Buttresses
a vault that requires less buttressing; barrel vaults intersect, forming arrises called “groins”
Ribbed Groin Vaults
it is any small subordinate rib which inserted between the main ribs, more often as an ornament than for construction
Lierne Vault
a concave conical vault whose ribs are of equal length and curvature, radiate from the springing like the ribs of a fan
Fan Vault
is a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building
Gargoyles
a column-like support for arches in a Gothic church
Pier
pier composed of a conjunction of colonettes, a clustered column
Compound Column
ornamental projections covering the intersection of the ribs
Basses
projecting carved ornaments in a bud or a leaf-shaped used on the side of the pinnacles and spires
Crockets
brackets set into the wall to carry a beam
Corbels
characterized by the pointed arch and geometric tracery
Gothic: Early French Style
characterized by circular windows with radiating lines of tracery
Gothic: Rayonnant Style
characterized by flamelike tracery, the intricacy of detailing, and frequent complication of interior space
Gothic: Flamboyant Style
an arch having a pointed crown
Pointed Arch
an arch having two centers and radii equal to the span
Gothic/Equilateral Arch
