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Thanks for Giving Us a Test
November
Great Mosque, Qayrawan (Kairouan), TunisiaNote mosque plans on p. 289 of your text
Purse Lid from Sutton HooAnd carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels
Plan and Interior View of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen, Germany c. 800 c.e.
Bayeux Tapestry
Madonna and Childc. 12th century
Plan and Interior of Santiago Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela, Spain c. 1090 - 1120
St. Michael’s Cathedral at Hildesheim, GermanyAnd plan of St. Michael’s
Plan of Ambulatory in St. Denis andAmbulatory view of St. Denis
Moreover, it was cunningly provided that…the old [church] should be equalized, by means of geometrical and arithmetical instruments, with the central nave of the new addition; and, likewise, that the dimensions of the old side aisles should be equalized with the dimensions of the new side aisles, except for that eloquent and praiseworthy extension [in the form of] a circular string of chapels, by virtue of which the whole [church] would shine with the wonderful and uninterrupted light of the most luminous windows, pervading the interior beauty. – Abbot Suger
Annunciation and Visitation, Reims Cathedral c. 1225-45
Gothic Sculpture
Visitation, Reims Cathedral• Classical look, i.e. Greek
contrapposto imitated• Heads look like ancient
Roman portraits• Figures start to converse
through gesture and expression
• Emerge more from the wall
Salisbury Cathedral, 1220 – 58And nave view
Nicola PisanoPulpit, Baptistery, Pisa, 1260
Nicola Pisano, Nativity, 1260Detail of pulpit
Giovanni Pisano, Nativity, 1302-10Detail of pulpit