MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTUREROMANESQUE STYLEMain characteristicsLatin cross designRound archesMassive stone wallsEnormous piers or pillarsGreat thick columnsSmall windowsGloomy interiorsSimple ornamentationInterior stone sculpture depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament

Most important examplesMonasteries ChurchesHouses of the Cluny ecclesiastical orderMaria Laach Abbey. 11th century. Western Germany

Saint Foy church, 12th century. France

Cistersian Abbey. 12th century. France

St. Etienne church. 11th century. Normandy, France

Iffley church. 12th century. Oxford, England.

Notre Dame de la Couldre. 12th century. Northern France

Interior of European monastery

European church. Massive pier

Great columns in the nave of Gloucester cathedral. England.12th century

Norman columns in the ambulatory of St Bartholomew's (1123), London

GOTHIC STYLEMain characteristicsLatin cross designPointed archRibbed vaultingFlying butressesRose windowsElaborated facadesMultiple columnsGargoylesStained glass (vitreaux)The Virgin Mary plays a prominent place in sculpture and satined glassRibbed Vaults

Flying butresses

Gargoyles

Rose window

Vitreaux

Vitreaux

Notre Dame, Paris

Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris

Chartres Cathedral

Laon Cathedral, France

Saint Chapelle. Paris

Nuestra Seora de la Merced. Salta

Iglesia San Alfonso. Salta