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Gothic Flashcards

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figures based on geometric shapes
Villard de Honnecourt

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God as architect of the world.

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Properties of Gothic architecture

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Gothic –

  1. attempt to minimize wall, reduce mass by cutting/perforating. reduction of wall surface.
  2. taller churches, achieved by pointed arches
  3. presence of ribbed vaults

Sense of flow and unity
Organic, unified facade

Vs.

Romanesque –
presence of barrel vaults
rounded arches
Compartmentalized

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Benefits of pointed arch

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Flexibility of height regardless of span.
Weight channeled down more efficiently
Can be perforated
Gives illusion of verticality

Lighter / does not required heavy piers

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Reims Cathedral
Reims, France

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Notre-Dame
Paris, France

Flying buttresses on exterior only, to support the thin, tall walls.

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Elevations of Gothic interiors

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Moves from gallery to triforium
Moves from 4 part elevation to a 3 part elevation

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Chartres Cathedral

Tall ceilings
Stained glass windows

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Stained glass window at Chartres Cathedral

Rose and lancets

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Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets
Florence, Italy
Cimabue

Byzantine influences, but adding context

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Madonna Enthroned
Florence, Italy

Giotto
Student of Cimabue

Uses intuitive perspective

Heiratic scale

Added on Cimabue’s work by overlapping heads
More naturalistic hold on baby

Lack of bodily definition in Mary’s body

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Arena Chapel
Giotto
Padua, Italy
Buon Fresco

Aisle-less
barrel vaulted

Three tiers:

  1. Life of the virgin Mary
  2. Life and ministry of Christ
  3. Passion of Christ

LATE GOTHIC

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Lux nova

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“New light”

Not meant to illuminate, meant to transform

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Mandorla

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Spiritual vehical, such as in Giotto’s Arena chapel

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Enrico Scrovegni

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Enrico Scrovegni, a wealthy Paduan banker, erected the Arena chapel, which he intended for his family’s private use, in part to expiate the bankers’ sin of usury (very high interest).

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Fresco

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Buon fresco - applying pigment to wet fresco

Fresco secco - applying pigment to dry plaster

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Chiaroscuro

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In drawing or painting, the treatment
and use of light and dark, especially the grada-
tions of light that produce the effect of modeling.

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The lamentation
Giotto
Arena Chapel

Christ dies, people are sad

Giotto includes foreground, middle ground, background
Still intuitive perspective
Attempt at perspective is due to rebirth of humanism and interest in mathematic approaches

Middle ground directs eye to subject of Christ
Creates grouping of people by turning some backs to audience, which adds dimension.
Emotive gestures and expressions

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Masaccio

Painter
Artistic descendant of Giotto
Florentine

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Santa Maria del Carmine
Florence

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Brancacci Chapel
Santa Maria del Carmine
Florence, Italy

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The tribute money
Masaccio
Brancacci Chapel
Santa Maria del Carmine

Chiaroscuro
Cast shadows

Atmospheric perspective
Linear perspective

Orthogonals lead to Christ

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Atmospheric perspective

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Atmospheric, or aerial, perspective creates the illusion of distance by the greater diminution of color in- tensity, the shift in color toward an almost neutral blue, and the blurring of contours as the intended distance between eye and object increases.

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Linear Perspective

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In linear perspective, the most common type, all parallel lines or surface edges converge on one, two, or three vanishing points located with reference to the eye level of the viewer (the horizon line of the picture), and associated objects are rendered smaller the farther from the viewer they are intended to seem.

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orthogonal

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orthogonal—A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane; the orthogonals in a painting appear to recede toward a vanishing point on the horizon.

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The expulsion
Brancacci Chapel
Santa Maria del Carmine

influenced by late greek sculpture and expands on Giotto’s emotional work

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The Holy Trinity
Santa Maria Novella
Florence, Italy
Masaccio

Appears to be several levels deep

Roman coffered ceiling (Pantheon)
Barrel vault, arches, columns

Includes patrons - Lenzi family

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Triforium

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The story in the nave elevation consisting of arcades, usually blind arcades, but occasionally filled with stained glass

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