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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. ROMANESQUE STYLE. Main characteristics. Latin cross design Round arches Massive stone walls Enormous piers or pillars Great thick columns Small windows Gloomy interiors Simple ornamentation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
ROMANESQUE STYLE
Main characteristics
• Latin cross design• Round arches• Massive stone walls• Enormous piers or pillars• Great thick columns• Small windows• Gloomy interiors• Simple ornamentation• Interior stone sculpture depicting scenes from the Old and
New Testament
Most important examples
• Monasteries • Churches• Houses of the Cluny ecclesiastical order
Maria Laach Abbey. 11th century. Western Germany
Saint Foy church, 12th century. France
St. Etienne church. 11th century. Normandy, France
Iffley church. 12th century. Oxford, England.
Notre Dame de la Couldre. 12th century. Northern France
Interior of European monastery
European church. Massive pier
Great columns in the nave of Gloucester cathedral. England.12th century
Norman columns in the ambulatory of St Bartholomew's (1123), London
GOTHIC STYLE
Main characteristics
• Latin cross design• Pointed arch• Ribbed vaulting• Flying butresses• Rose windows• Elaborated facades• Multiple columns• Gargoyles• Stained glass (vitreaux)• The Virgin Mary plays a prominent place in sculpture and satined
glass
Ribbed Vaults
Flying butresses
Gargoyles
Rose window
Vitreaux
Vitreaux
Notre Dame, Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris
Chartres Cathedral
Laon Cathedral, France
Saint Chapelle. Paris
Nuestra Señora de la Merced. Salta
Iglesia San Alfonso. Salta