Gothic Art

Gothic Church

Pointed arch

Ribbed vaulting

Flying buttress

Thinner piers

Stone Pinnacle

Romanesque Gothic

Stellar Vault Rib Vault

Segovia Cathedral

Chapter House of York Mister

Burgos Cathedral, Crossing. Dome over drum.

King’s College, Cambridge. Fan Vault.

Cathedral of Burgos

Cathedral of Leon

Notre Dame, Paris

White Virgin. Cathedral of Leon

White Virgin. Cathedral of Toledo

More realistics

They represent feelings and comunication

Roger van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross

Lochner, The Virgin of the Roses

More realistics

They represent feelings and comunication

Use of gold

They try to represent the space, perspective and landscapes

Jan van EyckArnolfini Portrait

Questions…..• Instead of walls we are going to have…..

– “Stained glass windows”• The buttresses now are going to be called…

– “Flying buttresses”.• The arches are not semicircular anymore, now they are:

– “Pointed arches”• The vaults now are called:

– “Rib Vaults”• What type of roses do we have in gothic churches:

– “Rose Windows”