Art and Music1150-1300

The Gothic Style

Gothic Architecture and Sculpture

Features of Gothic Churches Pointed arches and Rib vaults Flying buttresses Stained glass windows (light as a symbol

of Jesus) Verticality

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Denis

•Abbot Suger• Remodeled the Church of St. Denis• Invented the new style

Characteristics of Gothic Architecture1. Pointed arches (b) with ribbed vaulting (d) as

opposed to the rounded arches and vaulting (a and c) of the Romanesque style

a b c d

2. Flying Buttresses

Results:

Thinner walls

Higher walls

Windows

Flying Buttresses and Windows

3. Luminosity in the form of beautiful stained-glass windows (Suger and his theology of light).

“I am the light of the world” (John 8:12)

4. Verticality -- Pointing the way to God

• St. Piere de Beauvais (1247) at 157 feet

Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris:

Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris: View toward Choir or Apse

The Gargoyles of Notre Dame

Cathedral de Paris

Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (1194-1220)

Famous for its stained glass windows

fleur-de-lys

Rose windows

Lancet windows

"the Bible of the poor"

Tree of Jesse Window

Jesus Window

Sainte Chapelle (“Holy Chapel”), Paris (1243-1248)

Sainte Chapelle (1243-1248), Lower Chapel

Sainte Chapelle

(1243-1248), Upper Chapel

Gothic Polyphony: Notre Dame of Paris

Florid Organum

Discant ClausulaFlorid

Discant

Two Gothic Composers Leonin Perotin

Nave, Notre Dame

Sederunt principes,Et adversum me loquebantur;Et iniqui persecuti sunt me.

The rulers were seated in council,And they spoke against me;And my enemies persecuted me.

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