Gothic art

1. Gothic Art

2. Gothic Church
Pointed
arch
Rib vault
Flying
buttress
Thinner
piers
Stone
Pinnacle

3. Romanesque Gothic

4. Stellar Vault Rib Vault

5. Segovia Cathedral

6. Chapter House of York Mister

7. Burgos Cathedral, Crossing. Dome over drum.

8. King’s College, Cambridge. Fan Vault.

9. Cathedral of Burgos

11. Cathedral of Leon

12. Notre Dame, Paris

14. White Virgin. Cathedral of Leon
White Virgin.
Cathedral of Toledo
More realistics
They represented
feelings and
communication

15. Roger van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross

16. Lochner,
The Virgin of the Roses
More realistics
They represented feelings
and communication
Use of gold
They tried to represent
space, perspective and
landscapes

17. Jan van Eyck
Arnolfini Portrait

18. 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”