1. Gothic architecture
steeple
pinnacles
Architectural
elements flying buttresses
The rose window and
stained glass windows
side door
allow light to enter..
The central tympanum on
the main facade
is highly decorated.
main facade
Chartres Cathedral, France 1 / 11

2. Gothic sculpture
• religious and educational purpose
• independent figures
• curved lines
• more realistic and natural figures
• interest in expressing feelings
Main characteristics 1/4

3. Gothic sculpture
Great altarpieces were made for
the churches.
Sculpture, screen, or
decorated wall standing on
or behind an altar in a
Christian church. The images
depict holy
personages, saints, and
biblical subjects.
The diptych is an altarpiece
consisting of two panels; a
triptych, three panels; and a
polyptych, four or more
panels. Altarpieces vary in
size 3/4
Detail of the altarpiece, Seville Cathedral

4. The Choir stalls(sillerías de coro)
• They are decorated with very complicated
scenes

5. Capitals
• They were decorated with plants, leaves and
fruit rather than religious scenes

6. Funeral sculpture
• It was also important .
• Tombs were decorated with religious themes
and with a portrait of dead person

7. Gargoyles
• They were sculpted on the outside of
cathedral.

8. 1.Figures were not
adapted to fit Figure of Christ
architecture.
2-They became
independent, more
realistic and natural.
Clothes and gestures
were more detailed
Curved lines became
popular and the figures
showed movement,
There was an interest in
expressing feelings
Christ suffer on the cross
Virgin plays happily with
her child
Materials: mainly dead wake up with the sound of trumpets.
The
stone, wood more
popular 2/4

9. • Religious themes
• Painting on wood
• Rich colours
• The use of gold
• Greater realism and
movement of figures
Main characteristics 1/5

10. Gothic painting
• Except in Italy mural
painting became less
common and was
replaced by large
stained glass windows
• The miniatures used to
ilustrate books, were
the most important
types of painting
• Later they painted
wood in Altarpieces
Gargoyles on the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris 4/4

11. Portraits and landscapes
• Painting mostly represented
religious icons, but portraits
also became important.
• Many nobles and burghers
commissioned portraits to
show their power
• Some of the main features
of Gothic painting are bright
colours, the use of gold
, background
landscape, greater realism