Gothic Art
Gothic Church
Pointed arch
Ribbed vaulting
Flying buttress
Thinner piers
Stone Pinnacle
Romanesque Gothic
Stellar Vault Rib Vault
Segovia Cathedral
Chapter House of York Mister
Burgos Cathedral, Crossing. Dome over drum.
King’s College, Cambridge. Fan Vault.
Cathedral of Burgos
Cathedral of Leon
Notre Dame, Paris
White Virgin. Cathedral of Leon
White Virgin. Cathedral of Toledo
More realistics
They represent feelings and comunication
Roger van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross
Lochner, The Virgin of the Roses
More realistics
They represent feelings and comunication
Use of gold
They try to represent the space, perspective and landscapes
Jan van EyckArnolfini Portrait
Questions…..• Instead of walls we are going to have…..
– “Stained glass windows”• The buttresses now are going to be called…
– “Flying buttresses”.• The arches are not semicircular anymore, now they are:
– “Pointed arches”• The vaults now are called:
– “Rib Vaults”• What type of roses do we have in gothic churches:
– “Rose Windows”