Defination Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings.
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Defination
- Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was
succeeded by Renaissance architecture
- Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings
Characteristics
- Characteristics of Gothic Architecture Its characteristic features include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress
- In Gothic architecture, a unique combination of existing technologies established the emergence of a new building style Those technologies were the ogival or pointed arch, the ribbed vault, and the flying buttress
The Gothic style, when applied to an ecclesiastical building, emphasizes verticality and light This appearance was achieved by the development of certain architectural features, which together provided an engineering solution The structural parts of the building ceased to be its solid walls, and became a stone skeleton comprising clustered columns, pointed ribbed vaults and flying buttresses
- A Gothic cathedral or abbey was, prior to the 20th century, generally the landmark building in its town, rising high above all the domestic structures and often surmounted by one or more towers and pinnacles and perhaps tall spires These cathedrals were the skyscrapers of that day and would have, by far, been the largest buildings that Europeans would have ever seen
Typical
building 1 The Quire and tower of York Minster (1389–1407)2 Notre Dame de Paris (started 1163)
3 The Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick (1381–91)
4 The main body of Chartres Cathedral (1194–1260)
5 St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
6 The choir of Westminster Abbey in London as depicted in 1848
7 Cathedral of Seville, 15th and 16th centuries, the largest Gothic temple in the world
8 Cathedral of Burgos, in Burgos 13th century
9 Notre-Dame de Reims (where all the kings of France were crowned)
10 Saint Denis Basilica (considered by many, the first Gothic building)
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Vocabulary 1 Gothic Court
2 The pointed arch
3 The ogival arch
4 Vertical emphasis
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6 The flying buttress
7 Ecclesiastical building
8 The bearing piers
9 Moulded ribs
10 Containing statuary
11 Trapezoids
12 The tympanum
13 A rose window
14 The gable
15 Stained glass
16 Coarse limestone
17 Marble
18 Backsteingotik
19 Fortifications
20 Hammer-beam roof
21 Grey Friars
22 A mendicant order
23 The clustered columns
24 Large clerestory windows
25 The Latin cross
26 The diagonal vaults
27 A pinnacle
28 A statue
29 The outward thrust
30 A tremeau
31 Lancet arch
32 Equilateral arch
33 Flamboyant arch
34 Depressed arch
35 The equilateral form
36 Radius
37 Vertical shafts
38 Horizontal transoms
39 Perpendicular
40 The loftiness
41 Biblical stories
42 Visual typological allegories
43 Wooden ceilings
44 Remained intact
45 Craftsmanship
46 Architectural distinction
47 Timber
48 Classical style
49 The ambulatory
50 Radiating chapels