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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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- Choir of Gloucester Cathedral
- Era: English Gothic, 1332-1357
- Location: Gloucester, England
- Techniques:
- perpendicular or Tudor style
- stone webbing filled with ribs on top of ribs that creates a lace-like design on the ceiling
- intricately decorated groin vaults
- draws eyes up, verticality
- meant to dematerialize the wall
- ceiling ties into to stained glass window
- window emphasizes flat end of apse and mimic exterior facade
- horizontal registers
- large lancet windows
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- Chapel of Henry VII
- Artists: Robert and William Vertue
- Era: English Gothic, 1503-1519
- Location: Westminister Abbey, London, England
- Techniques:
- groin vaults covered in fan-like design
- ribbings creating embroidery
- pendants hang off of each fan
- looks like stalictights
- carved out of stone by hand
- dematerialize the ceiling
- windows larger to make ceiling seem more delicate
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- Choir of Cologne Cathedral
- Era: German Gothic, 1248-1880
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Techniques:
- interior rib vaults
- buttressing done with heavy extensions
- heavy masonry
- middle of city
- 150ft
- tall, narrow choir
- double lancets in triforium
- small slender single windows in clerestory
- ribbed four part vaulted ceiling
- emphasis on vertical
- 422ft long nave
- 3 aisle church
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- Choir of Cologne Cathedral
- Era: German Gothic, 1248-1880
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Techniques:
- interior rib vaults
- buttressing done with heavy extensions
- heavy masonry
- middle of city
- 150ft
- tall, narrow choir
- double lancets in triforiusmall slender single windows in clerestory
- ribbed, four part vaulted ceiling
- emphasis on vertical
- 422ft long nave
- 3 aisle church
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- St. Elizabeth
- Era: German Gothic, 1235-1283
- Location: Marburg, Germany
- Techniques:
- called "hallenkirche" means hall church
- aisles are same height as nave
- no clerestory windows
- windows are in aisle
- rib vaults are pointed arhces
- tall lancet windows
- facade has two spire capped towers in French Gothic style
- no tracery, arcades, or portal sculpture on facade
- no flying buttresses
- rounded transept
- free flowing, less narrow and divided then French Gothic
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- St. Elizabeth
- Era: German Gothic, 1235-1283
- Location: Marburg, Germany
- Techniques:
- called "hallenkirche" means hall church
- aisles are same height as nave
- no clerestory windows
- windows are in aisle
- rib vaults are pointed arhces
- tall lancet windows
- facade has two spire capped towers in French Gothic style
- no tracery, arcades, or portal sculpture on facade
- no flying buttresses
- rounded transept
- free flowing, less narrow and divided then French Gothic
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- St. Elizabeth
- Era: German Gothic, 1235-1283
- Location: Marburg, Germany
- Techniques:
- called "hallenkirche" means hall church
- aisles are same height as nave
- no clerestory windows
- windows are in aisle
- rib vaults are pointed arhces
- tall lancet windows
- facade has two spire capped towers in French Gothic style
- no tracery, arcades, or portal sculpture on facade
- no flying buttresses
- rounded transept
- free flowing, less narrow and divided then French Gothic
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- Death of the Virgin
- Era: German Gothic, 1230
- Location: Strasbourg Cathedral, France
- Techniques:
- surrounded by 12 apostles
- create an arch of mourners that fit perfectly in semicircular niche
- Christ holds doll-like figure, Mary's soul
- Mary Magdalene is in front of bed
- portrays emotion through gestures
- varying emotions among figures
- humanized and natural
- deeply undercut fold
- intensity through play of light and shadow
- recession into space is off, mourners are squeezed - shortened heads and squat bodies
- confused space
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- Ekkehard and Uta
- Era: German Gothic, 1249-1255
- Location: Naumburg Cathedral, Germany
- Techniques:
- inside cathedral
- quiet and solemn figures
- individualized features and personalities
- people died 200 years before the sculpture
- Ekkehard is an intense and stout knight
- Uta is beautiful and aloof and has a graceful gesture
- soft folds of drapery
- very advanced sense of body contour, garment and body are not one
- accurate fall of drapery
- paint gives them more realism
- they have canopies, royal factor
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- Bamberg Rider
- Era: German Gothic, 1235-1240
- Location: Bamberg Cathedral, Germany
- Techniques:
- indoor sculpture mounted against a pier underneath an architectural canopy
- German emperor, benefactor of cathedral
- careful detail of high saddle and horse trappings- proportions of horse to rider is correct-
- tifly stylized
- anatomy of horse is inaccurate
- slight motion implies his impatience with his placement, awkward being next to a pier, he is dwarfed by it
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- Rottgen Pieta (Virgin with the Dead Christ)
- Era: German Gothic, 1300-1325
- Location: Rhineland, Germany
- Techniques:
- closer to a religious icon
- people are more aware of suffering due to Black Death
- seek comfort and reassurance in Mary who is sharing in humanity's sorrow
- emphasis on traits of human suffering by exaggeration
- Christ is stunted
- - distorted human wreck
- - stiffened body
- - covered in streams of blood
- Mary is the image of maternal anguish
- - oversized head that is twisted in the expression of unbearable grief
- forcibly confront the faithful with the icon of agony death and sorrow
- "what is your suffering compared to this?"
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- West Facade of Orvieto Cathedral
- Artist: Lorenzo Maitani
- Era: Italian Gothic, 1310
- Techniques:
- French Gothic influence
- - pointed gables over three portals
- - rose window framed by statues and niches
- - four large pinnacles that divide the facade into large bays
- pinnacles are minitaure sunstitues for bell towers
- covers basilica built in Romanesque style
- center gable extends into next register
- rose window inside concentric squares
- described as a screen or an altar piece
- timber roof inside and two story elevation
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- Florence Cathedral
- Era: Italian Gothic, 1296-1436
- Location: Florence, Italy
- Techniques:
- two toned stone on exterior creates geometric patterning and dematerializes the building
- horizontal emphasis with red roof line
- cornices across wall
- facade has gables
- domes around apse
- no buttresses or cleretory windows
- interior
- - white washed walls
- - two colored stone
- - Gothic pointed arch but not as narrow and pointed
- - dome has small windows repeated in nave walls
- - elaborate mosaic floor
- - ribbed vaults
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- Florence Cathedral
- Era: Italian Gothic, 1296-1436
- Location: Florence, Italy
- Techniques:
- two toned stone on exterior creates geometric patterning and dematerializes the building
- horizontal emphasis with red roof line
- cornices across wall
- facade has gables
- domes around apse
- no buttresses or cleretory windows
- interior
- - white washed walls
- - two colored stone
- - Gothic pointed arch but not as narrow and pointed
- - dome has small windows repeated in nave walls
- - elaborate mosaic floor
- - ribbed vaults
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- Doge's Palace
- Era: Italian Gothic, 1340-1345
- Location: Venice, Italy
- Techniques:
- Venetian republic seat of government
- most ornate public building in medieval Italy
- first level
- - short heavy columns that support very severely pointed arhces
- - had to be stout to look like it holds up rest of the building
- second level
- - doubled rhythm colonade
- - ogee arches - flame like tip
- - inbetween medallions pierced with quatrofoils
- top level
- - solid wall pierced by large windows
- - tow toned stones
- each story is taller than the one beneath
- does not look top heavy, looks paper thin
- floats between air and water
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- Milan Cathedral
- Era: Italian Gothic, 1386
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Techniques:
- wider that is is tall
- French Gothic influence
- - pinnacles
- - elaborate tracery
- double pinnacles
- more detailed
- confused mixture of late Gothic and classicizing Renaissance elements
- pinnacles go all the way down buttresses
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