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- Bourges Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1195-1255
- Location: Bourges, France
- Techniques:
- 125ft tall
- more structures out of buttressing, was for both design and structure
- 5 aisle church
- sexpartite vaults
- chapels around exterior of apse
- each subsequent aisle is lower and has a pointed arch
- 4 part elevation
- wider but shorter clerestory windows
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- Bourges Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1195-1255
- Location: Bourges, France
- Techniques:
- 125ft tall
- more structures out of buttressing, was for both design and structure
- 5 aisle church
- sexpartite vaults
- chapels around exterior of apse
- each subsequent aisle is lower and has a pointed arch
- 4 part elevation
- wider but shorter clerestory windows
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- Bourges Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1195-1255
- Location: Bourges, France
- Techniques:
- 125ft tall
- more structures out of buttressing, was for both design and structure
- 5 aisle church
- sexpartite vaults
- chapels around exterior of apse
- each subsequent aisle is lower and has a pointed arch
- 4 part elevation
- wider but shorter clerestory windows
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- Amiens Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1220-1236
- Location: Amiens, France
- Techniques:
- 144ft tall
- wider clerestory lancet windows
- lancet windows in triforium
- different architects
- radiating chapels
- elaborate gables that do not project beyond the registers
- elegant and skeletal gables that dissolve the massive wall structure
- towers added later
- 5 aisle church with tiny transept
- full maturity of a skeletal structure providing more lighting
- so much lighting, vaults become less substantial
- bundled columns
- 4 paneled rib vaulting
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- Amiens Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1220-1236
- Location: Amiens, France
- Techniques:
- 144ft tall
- wider clerestory lancet windows
- lancet windows in triforium
- different architects
- radiating chapels
- elaborate gables that do not project beyond the registers
- elegant and skeletal gables that dissolve the massive wall structure
- towers added later
- 5 aisle church with tiny transept
- full maturity of a skeletal structure providing more lighting
- so much lighting, vaults become less substantial
- bundled columns
- 4 paneled rib vaulting
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- Amiens Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1220-1236
- Location: Amiens, France
- Techniques:
- 144ft tall
- wider clerestory lancet windows
- lancet windows in triforium
- different architects
- radiating chapels
- elaborate gables that do not project beyond the registers
- elegant and skeletal gables that dissolve the massive wall structure
- towers added later
- 5 aisle church with tiny transept
- full maturity of a skeletal structure providing more lighting
- so much lighting, vaults become less substantial
- bundled columns
- 4 paneled rib vaulting
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- Reims Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1225-1290
- Location: Reims, France
- Techniques:
- 125ft tall
- ornate frames and voids on facade
- gallery of kings statues above rose window
- openings flanking rose windows are elegant lancet voids, very long
- pointed arch above rose window
- pinnacles over the portals are more elaborate and more narrow
- rose window is right above pinnacle
- tympanums have stained glass windows
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- Annunciation and Visitation
- Era: High Gothic
- Location: Reims, Cathedral, France
- Techniques:
- annunciation (left)
- - Mary and St. Elizabeth with contraposta and fixed gazes
- - deeply undercut folds
- - detailed wing
- - high relief
- - wool garments that hang more naturally
- visitation (right)
- - more classical
- - knees bend through garments
- - conversing through gestures
- Mary's central role in Gothic iconography
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- Beauvais Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1247
- Location: Beauvais, France
- Techniques:
- 157ft
- vaults collapsed in 1284, nave is completely gone
- element of veritcallity
- narrow colonade
- 3 part elevation
- - nave arcade had huge lancet arches
- - tiny triforium
- - huge lancet windows
- sexpartate vaulted ceiling - created a floral effect that dematerialized the ceiling
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- Beauvais Cathedral
- Era: High Gothic, 1247
- Location: Beauvais, France
- Techniques:
- 157ft
- vaults collapsed in 1284, nave is completely gone
- element of veritcallity
- narrow colonade
- 3 part elevation
- - nave arcade had huge lancet arches
- - tiny triforium
- - huge lancet windowssexpartate vaulted ceiling - created a floral effect that dematerialized the ceiling
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- Rose Window of Notre Dame
- Era: Rayonnant, 1240-1250
- Location: Paris, France
- Techniques:
- stone tracery outline
- leaded stained glass
- defracted light - Byzantine reflected light
- color changes with the time of day
- jewel-like stars that are glowing
- virgin Mary in center
- ring one are the prophets
- ring two are 42 ancestors of Christ
- outer right 32 high priests and patriarchs
- blue is symbolic of heaven for Mary
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- Sainte Chapelle
- Era: Rayonnant, 1243-1248
- Location: Paris, France
- Techniques:
- 49ft (facade) or 60ft (interior) tall and 50ft wide
- dissolved the walls by using mostly stained glass
- no transept
- rose window added later
- house relics of the passion of Christ after the sixth crusade by Louis IX
- meant to be a relicuary church (relicuary is usually a box, smaller church resembles a box)
- 3/4 windows and 1/4 masonry
- 6450 square feet surface area of stained glass
- mullions - vertical stone bars that separate all the giant stone windows
- mullions emphasize verticality of piece
- rose-violet atmosphere
- painted blue ceiling with gold stars
- ribbed groin vaults
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- Sainte Chapelle
- Era: Rayonnant, 1243-1248
- Location: Paris, France
- Techniques:
- 49ft (facade) or 60ft (interior) tall and 50ft wide
- dissolved the walls by using mostly stained glass
- no transept
- rose window added later
- house relics of the passion of Christ after the sixth crusade by Louis IX
- meant to be a relicuary church (relicuary is usually a box, smaller church resembles a box)
- 3/4 windows and 1/4 masonry
- 6450 square feet surface area of stained glass
- mullions - vertical stone bars that separate all the giant stone windows
- mullions emphasize verticality of piece
- rose-violet atmosphere
- painted blue ceiling with gold stars
- ribbed groin vaults
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- Virgin of Paris
- Era: Late Gothic, early 4th century
- Location: Notre Dame, Paris, France
- Techniques:
- wearing a heavy gem encrusted crown linking her too earth
- anecdotal presentation, humanization
- holds Christ delicately giving her a greater elegance
- s-shaped curve to the body, decorative only
- face too small for body
- body is lost in deeply undercut folds
- high play of light and shadow on garment
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- Salisbury Cathedral
- Era: English Gothic, 1220-1258
- Location: Salisbury, England
- Techniques:
- techniques from French Gothic style
- - lancet windows
- - blind arcades with pointed arches
- - statuary
- park-like setting
- facade is a squat screen in front of the nave
- wider than it is tall
- dwarf towers
- - focus on horizontal with many theirs of niches
- - blind arcades mostly, come are framed voids
- focus on crossing tower
- no flying buttresses
- 3 small entrance portals, mimic arhces in horizontal tiers above
- facade has 7 registers, forces eyes across the building not up
- square apse
- 3 part elevation with pointed arches and compound piers
- columns go all the way from floor to ceiling
- groins only come down to bottom of clerestories
- purbeck marble, darker marble used for triforium moldings, and compound piers - emphasis on horizontal
- 3 aisle church
- 4 part groin vault
- 2 transepts
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- Salisbury Cathedral
- Era: English Gothic, 1220-1258
- Location: Salisbury, England
- Techniques:
- techniques from French Gothic style
- - lancet windows
- - blind arcades with pointed arches
- - statuary
- park-like setting
- facade is a squat screen in front of the nave
- wider than it is talldwarf towers
- - focus on horizontal with many theirs of niches
- - blind arcades mostly, come are framed voids
- focus on crossing tower
- no flying buttresses
- 3 small entrance portals, mimic arhces in horizontal tiers above
- facade has 7 registers, forces eyes across the building not up
- square apse
- 3 part elevation with pointed arches and compound piers
- columns go all the way from floor to ceiling
- groins only come down to bottom of clerestories
- purbeck marble, darker marble used for triforium moldings, and compound piers - emphasis on horizontal
- 3 aisle church
- 4 part groin vault
- 2 transepts
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