Gothic Art

Gothic Art in France

Ile-de-France

Characteristics of Gothic Style

• Elegant soaring buildings

• Light – through stained glass

• Ribbed Groin vaults• Pointed Arch• Flying buttresses

and high walls

Politics and Society

• Development of Towns

• Economy

• Intellectual pursuits

• Age of the Cathedral

Black Death: The Bubonic Plague

France

Suger, St. Denis, 1140-44, Gothic

Abbot Suger

Town

Floor plan

Exterior

Sculpture

Interior

Floor plan of choir

Interior with windows

Stained Glass Windows

Chartres Cathedral, c.1134-1220, Gothic

Gothic Art in France

Triforium

Flying Buttress

Ground plan

Nave

Royal Portal, West Façade Chartres, c.1145-55

Jamb Sculpture

Jamb Sculpture

Stained Glass

Details

Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral, c.1224, Gothic

Detail

Plate tracery and Bar tracery

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, 1163-c1270, Gothic

West Façade

Gargoyles

Nave drawing

Nave

Ground plan

Piers and Columns

Windows

Flying Buttresses

Portal Sculpture

Reims Cathedral, c.1211-1428

Annunciation & Visitation, c.1230-45, Gothic

Detail

Comparison

Detail

Sainte-Chapelle, c.1243-48, Rayonnant Gothic

Interior

Detail

Independent Sculpture

Virgin and Child, c.1339, International Gothic Style

Fleur-de-lis

Book Arts

Developments in Manuscript Illumination

• Center moves to Paris

• Rise of University – rise in books

• Cottage industry

• New types of books develop

Lodge Books

• Tool of master mason

• Visual guide

• Describes how to create the elements

Bible Moralisee, 1266-34, Gothic

Psalter of Saint Louis, 1253-70, Court Style/Gothic

Other page

Pucelle, Book of Hours of Jeanne d’Evereux, c.1325-28,

Gothic

Perpetual Calendar

Book of Hours of Jeanne d’Evereux

Annunciation detail

England

Political Situation

• Plantagenet dynasty (1154-1485)

• Conflicts

• Territory changes

• Great Patrons of the Arts/Architecture

Cistercian Example

Salisbury Cathedral, c.1220-58, English Gothic

Interior

Gothic Castle layout

Germany & The Holy Roman

Empire

Political Situation

• Decentralized

• Hall church

• Emperors and patrons of the arts

• Sculptural center - Mosan

Verdun, The Shrine of the Three Kings, c.1190-1205,

Gothic

Ekkehard and Uta, c.1245-60, Gothic

Detail

Vesperbild, c.1330, Gothic

Italy

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

Painting

Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, c.1280, Gothic

Detail

Giotto, Arena Chapel, 1305-6, Gothic

Lamentation