GOTHIC ART

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GOTHIC ART
Title Masons At Work
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Book Illumination Luxury Art
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Artist Villard de Honnecourt Title ars de
geometria (art of geometry) Medium Ink on
vellum Size 9¼ X 6" (23.5 X 15.2 cm) Date
122035
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Title Page with Queen Blanche of Castile and
Louis IX, Moralized Bible Medium Ink, tempera,
and gold leaf on vellum Size 15 x 10½" (38 X
26.6 cm) Date 122634
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Title Abraham, Sarah, and the Three Strangers
From the Psalter of Saint Louis Medium Ink,
tempera, and gold leaf on vellum Size 5 X 3½"
(13.6 X 8.7 cm) Date 125370
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Title Psalm 1 (Beatus Vir) from The Windmill
Psalter Medium Ink, pigments, and gold on
vellum Size each page 12 ¾ X 8¾" (32.3 X 22.2
cm) Date c. 127080
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Title Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris) Date
early 14th century Source Cathedral of
Notre-Dame, Paris
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REGIONAL GOTHIC ART ARCHITECTURE
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English Gothic

• High Gothic period Decorated style- ornate
  decoration of architectural elements added
  extra ribs to vaulting creating a webbed effect
• Late Gothic period Perpendicular style
  vertical emphasis of architecture and decoration
  windows taller, more ornate, fan vaults
  ribbed vaults that meet and project downward from
  the ceiling

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Fan Vault
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ENGLAND
Title Salisbury Cathedral Date 122058 west
façade finished 1265 spire c. 132030 cloister
and chapter house 126384. Source Salisbury,
England
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Title Salisbury Cathedral, Plan
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Title Nave, Salisbury Cathedral
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Title Chapel of Henry VII Date 1,503 1,519
CE Source Westminster Abbey, London, England
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German Gothic
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GERMANY
Title Exterior, Church of Saint Elizabeth Date
123583 Source Marburg, Germany
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Title Interior, Church of Saint Elizabeth
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Artist Nicholas of Verdun and workshop Title
Shrine of the Three Kings Medium Silver and
gilded bronze with enamel and gemstones Size
5'8" X 6' X 3'8" (1.73 X 1.83 X 1.12 m) Date c.
1190c. 1205/10 Source Cologne (Köln)
Cathedral, Germany
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Title Dormition of The Virgin Date c.
1240 Source South transept portal tympanum,
Strasbourg Cathedral, Strasbourg, France
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Title Ekkehard and Uta Medium Stone,
originally polychromed Size approx. 6'2" (1.88
m) Date c. 124560 Source West chapel, Naumburg
Cathedral, Naumburg, Germany
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Title Virgin with the Dead Christ (Rottgen
Pieta) Date 1300 1325 CE Medium painted
wood Size 2 10 ½
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ITALY
Title Siena Cathedral Date 128499 Source
Siena, Italy. Lower west façade
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