Gothic Art

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Gothic Art
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Gothic Art in France
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Ile-de-France
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Characteristics of Gothic Style

• Elegant soaring buildings
• Light through stained glass
• Ribbed Groin vaults
• Pointed Arch
• Flying buttresses and high walls

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Politics and Society

• Development of Towns
• Economy
• Intellectual pursuits
• Age of the Cathedral

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Black Death The Bubonic Plague
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France
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Suger, St. Denis, 1140-44, Gothic
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Abbot Suger
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Town
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Floor plan
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Exterior
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Sculpture
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Interior
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Floor plan of choir
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Interior with windows
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Stained Glass Windows
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Chartres Cathedral, c.1134-1220, Gothic
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Gothic Art in France
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Triforium
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Flying Buttress
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Ground plan
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Nave
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Royal Portal, West Façade Chartres, c.1145-55
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Jamb Sculpture
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Jamb Sculpture
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Stained Glass
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Details
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Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral, c.1224, Gothic
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Detail
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Plate tracery and Bar tracery
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Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, 1163-c1270,
Gothic
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West Façade
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Gargoyles
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Nave drawing
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Nave
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Ground plan
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Piers and Columns
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Windows
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Flying Buttresses
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Portal Sculpture
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Reims Cathedral, c.1211-1428
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Annunciation Visitation, c.1230-45, Gothic
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Detail
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Comparison
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Detail
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Sainte-Chapelle, c.1243-48, Rayonnant Gothic
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Interior
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Detail
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Independent Sculpture
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Virgin and Child, c.1339, International Gothic
Style
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Fleur-de-lis
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Book Arts
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Developments in Manuscript Illumination

• Center moves to Paris
• Rise of University rise in books
• Cottage industry
• New types of books develop

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Lodge Books

• Tool of master mason
• Visual guide
• Describes how to create the elements

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Bible Moralisee, 1266-34, Gothic
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Psalter of Saint Louis, 1253-70, Court
Style/Gothic
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Other page
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Pucelle, Book of Hours of Jeanne dEvereux,
c.1325-28, Gothic
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Perpetual Calendar
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Book of Hours of Jeanne dEvereux
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Annunciation detail
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England
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Political Situation

• Plantagenet dynasty (1154-1485)
• Conflicts
• Territory changes
• Great Patrons of the Arts/Architecture

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Cistercian Example
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Salisbury Cathedral, c.1220-58, English Gothic
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Interior
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Gothic Castle layout
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Germany The Holy Roman Empire
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Political Situation

• Decentralized
• Hall church
• Emperors and patrons of the arts
• Sculptural center - Mosan

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Verdun, The Shrine of the Three Kings,
c.1190-1205, Gothic
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Ekkehard and Uta, c.1245-60, Gothic
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Detail
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Vesperbild, c.1330, Gothic
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Italy
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Political Situation

• Age of division and economic expansion
• Germany/Holy Roman Empire no longer a force
• France Spain Papal Authority Independent
  City States
• Artist emerges end of 13th century

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Painting
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Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, c.1280,
Gothic
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Detail
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Giotto, Arena Chapel, 1305-6, Gothic
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Lamentation