Pre-Gothic to Gothic Flashcards
Cathedral of St-Etienne, Sens
-1130/40-1164 -tripartite division on main facade -small wheel on that facade -ribbed vaults with rounded arches
Noyon, Cathedral of Notre Dame
-1145-1205 -cruciform plan -apsidal terminations for the transepts -4 part elevation (first appearance) -ribbed vaulting
Laon, Cathedral of Notre Dame
-1160 -twin towers on west facade -four part elevation mono cylindrical piers to carry bundles of five and three
Paris, Cathedral of Notre Dame
-1163-1236 -nave rebuilt by Viollet-le-Duc
Chartes, Cathedral of Notre Dame
-1135-1221 -west facade is related to facade at St-Denis -double ambulatory
Portail Royal
west facade of Chartres, Notre Dame -jamb sculptures
Reims, Cathedral of Notre Dame
1210ff -Piers simplify and clarify the Chartrain solution -beautiful stained glass windows
Cathedral of Notre Dame at Amiens
-1218-old cathedral burnt down -1220- new one began under Robert de Luzarches -elevation is more articulated
Cathedral of Beauvais
-1225ff -highest interior -wood trusses supporting transept walls
La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris
-26 April 1248 -tall interior with stained glass everywhere, addition
Lincoln Cathedral
-1192 (began) -under Bishop Hugh of Lincoln -follows Canterbury model using 2 transepts, three part interior elevation and separate chapel
Salisbury Cathedral
- 1220ff -colonnettes that are connected to the springers in the vaulting begin in the middle of the gallery -Gothic ribbed vaults are lighter than Norman vaults
- use purbeck marble in horizontal bands to accentuate length of nave
The Decorated Style
1240-1330 -second phase of english gothic, first being the “early english style” -skeletalization of the elevation
Exeter Cathedral
- 1280
- highly ornate ceiling in the nave
Cathedral of St. Andrew at Wells, Somerset
,-1186/90 -stained glass in Lady Chapel of Retrochoir -lieme and tierceron ribbed vaulting