Gothic art developed in Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance. Some key aspects include elaborate cathedrals built starting in northern France using flying buttresses and stained glass windows to let in maximum light. Gothic architecture was characterized by pointed arches and vaulted ceilings in cathedrals, while Gothic sculpture moved towards more naturalism and realistic figures. Gothic painting included frescoes, stained glass windows, illuminated manuscripts, and later oil paintings on canvas as artistic styles evolved over centuries.

1. Gothic Art

2. What it is?
The Gothic Art is a stile wihch was developed
in Western Europe from Medium ages till
the Renaissance.
Extensive artistic stage that began in the
northern of France and expanded
throughout the West.
According stages and cities the Gothic art
was developed by different way.

3. Gothic term
The term “Gothic”
was used for
first time in 16th
Century for the
Italian
Giorgio Vasari
grat art
historian.

4. The NeoGothic
Revival of medieval
art, full of new
content to the term
"Gothic" which
starts
distinguished and
separated from
the Romanic Art.

5. Historical Context
• The Gothic architecture coincides with
the time, the fullness and the crisis.
• The Gothic coincides with the maximum
development of urban culture where it
appears the bourgeoisie, universities
and the flourishing of religious orders

6. Characterisation
• The Gothic cathedrals rise
prodigious fulls of light, develops a
major civil architecture and
independent of the other visual arts.
• The dominance of the religious
inspiration in art continues to
appear, the monastery hardly varies
except in formal details and adapting
to new requirements, the same plant
churches remains predominantly a
Latin cross with a header apse
oriented to the east.

7. Architecture
• At the architectural level,
the Gothic style was born
around 1140 in France,
considered the first
monument of this art was
the Basilica of the royal
abbey of Saint-Denis or
San Dionisio (built by
Abbot Suger, counselor
of Louis VII of France) .

8. Architecture examples
Cathedral of Toledo / Cathedral of Notre Damn / Churche of Santa María of
Castro-Urdiales

9. Cistercian art.
• This art has been defined for
a long time fairly superficial,
exclusively for the use of one
of its elements, the pointed
arch, which is usually invoked
ogival, from which derives the
rib vault that allows thrusts to
move the buttresses outside,
that is further away from the
walls through the use of flying
buttresses. That allowed the
construction of buildings
much larger and higher, and
that there is more than the
vain on the walls

10. The light
• The light is understood as
the sublimation of divinity.
The symbolism
dominates the artists of
the time, the school sees
the light of Chartres the
most noble of natural
phenomena, less material
element, the closest
approximation to the pure
form.

11. Gothic Sculpture I
• The sculpture Gothic
style evolved from a
long and rigid, still in
part Romanesque,
towards a sense of
space and naturalist
at the end of the 12th
century and early
13th century.

12. Gothic Sculpture II
• The Gothic sculptures were born in
the walls of churches, in middle
12th century in the Island of
France, when Abbot Suger did
build the abbey of Saint-Denis (h
1140), considered the first Gothic
building, and then the cathedral
Chartres (h 1145). Previously, the
Gothic is not built on the Isle of
France, so the sculptors were
brought from Burgundy, who made
the revolutionary figures who
worked as columns in the Royal
Portico of Chartres. It was a new
invention and would be the model
for a generation of sculptors.

13. Gothic Sculpture examples
Puerta del la asunción-Laredo / Cathedral of León / Cathedral of Notre damn

14. Gothic Pint I
1.The Gothic Paint didn´t
appear till around the
year 1200, nearly 50
years after gothic
architecture and
sculpture.
3.The gothic is
corresponding with the
new tends;
philosophical and
religious.
2.While in the
Romanesque paintings
are simplified and
idealised, in the Gothic
is increased realism
and naturalism,
approaching the
imitation of nature,
painting scenery,
although it remains
unusual.

15. Gothic paint II
• Frescs: Mural
painting, a
continuation of the
previous Roman and
Christian traditions.

16. Gothic Paint II
• Stained-glass
windows. In northern
Europe, the stained
glass art were
preferred until the
15th century.

17. Gothic paint II
• Painting on board.
They began in Italy in
the 13th century and
spread for all Europe,
so as to the 15th
century had become
the predominant form,
supplanting even the
windows.

18. Gothic paint II
• Miniatures. The
illuminated
manuscripts
represented the most
complete
documentation of the
Gothic painting

19. Gothic paint II
• The oil painting on
canvas was not
popular until the 15th
and 16th centuries
and was the starting
point of Renaissance
art.