Gothic art developed in Western Europe from the 12th to 16th centuries, coinciding with changes in medieval society. The most characteristic Gothic architecture featured cathedrals with pointed arches, vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses, and large windows to let in light. Gothic sculpture became more naturalistic and expressive, often depicting religious themes. Painting evolved from illuminated manuscripts to panels and frescoes with livelier colors and perspective. Overall, Gothic art marked a shift from the heavy Romanesque style through lighter, brighter designs that spread across Europe.

2. INTRODUCTION
• Gothic art is a style that develops in
Western Europe temporally
coinciding with the fullness and the
crisis in the Middle Ages until the
arrival of the renaissance that is
from the12th and the 16th century.
A new social class also appeared,
bourgeoisie. Gothic art appeared
in France and spread quickly by
Italian kingdoms (The Iberian
Peninsula, England and so on) The
society continues under an unfair
system of power and privileges.
Religion continues being so
important but with some
differences from the Romanesque.

3. THREE IMPORTANT
CONCEPTS
- As in every kind of art we can difference three
important concepts:
-SCULPTURE -ARCHITECTURE
-PAINTING

4. ARCHITECTURE
• Against small rural and dark Romanesque, gothic cathedral rises full of light.
• PURPOSE: the most characteristic monuments continue being the religious
building (monasteries especially Cistercians, the Dominicans and
Franciscans) .
• But from the 14th century also civil buildings become important.
• MATERIALS: in some zones of Europe, materials such as coloured marble
in Toscana or Mudejar brick in the Iberian Peninsula were characteristic.
• ELEMENTS:
1. SUPPORTING: wall, column, cruciform column. Outside there
was a butresses system by arches.
2. SUSTAINED ELEMENTS: Pointed arch or ogival. In the 15th
century the tudor arche, the ogee, the conopial , the carpanel, the
escarzano, the mixtilina and the lobed. It appeared the crucer vault
and since the 13th century the vaults are called sexpartitas,
terceletes, stellate and fan.
3. THE FLOOR PLANT: Continues having the shape of a latin
cross.
4. GARGOYLES: Were used.

5. EXAMPLES OF
ARCHITECTURE
• IN SPAIN • IN EUROPE

6. FLOOR PLANT AND
CATHEDRAL

7. SCULPTURE
• Appeared in France(XII-XVI)
• Characteristics: naturalism humanization of divinity
exhibition organized and clear in the compositions.
• Favourite materials: Marble in Italy, stone,
wood(wooden panels and images) and ivory.
• Topics are basically religious(the life of Jesus the virgin
and the saints)
• The decorative elements are inspired in the local nature:
animals and plants.
• It also appeared in facades cathedrals, the cloisters,the
chapels,the choir stalls, the graves and the wooden
panels. In the capitels the decoration represents plants.

8. EXAMPLES OF SCULPTURE

9. PAINTING
- The gothic painting implies big changes with respect to the
romanesque painting due to substitution of walls by glass
windows. First glass windows and the illumination of books
with miniatures had the leadership but then painting in
wooden panels were developed.
- The gothic painting had more intense and bright colours and
in the 15th century oil painting appeared.
- The wooden panels evolved to a diptych ( two panels),
triptych ( three panels), and poliptych ( a lot of panels).
- Interest in perspective also evolved.
- The subject is basically religious, the topics are about the life
of Jesus, of the a narrative, didactic and devotional
character. virgin and of the saints.
- Gothic painting has

10. EXAMPLES OF
PAINTING

11. CONCLUSION
Gothic art beginning in the 14th century in Western
Europe, there were three important concepts: Sculpture,
Painting and Architecture.
Sculpture was more realist than the Romanesque.
Painting was very religious, they used the perspective
and the people showed emotion.
Achitecture began to be more popular like palaces,
bridges and cathedrals.
Gothic art was more brigth, recharged and popular than
Romanesque art.

12. BY :
Sara Alonso
Amaya Aparicio
Cristina Fernández
Daniela Martínez
Jara Muñoz
2º ESO