Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

MAP18-1Europe around 1200. Bourges Moissac ParisSt.-Denis Reims Cologne Bamberg Schwäbisch Gmund Rome London Salisbury Glouceste ...

and the Rebuilding of Saint-Denis,” above). Thus, Suger began to rebuild the church in 1135 by erecting a new west facade with s ...

464 Chapter 18 GOTHIC EUROPE T he ancestors of the Gothic rib vault are the Romanesque vaults found at Caen (FIG. 17-31), Durham ...

ROYAL PORTAL, CHARTRESThis innovative treatment of the portals of Suger’s church appeared immediately afterward at Chartres, als ...

sang hymns to her, put her image everywhere, and dedicated great cathedrals to her. Soldiers carried the Virgin’s image into bat ...

French Gothic 467 LAON CATHEDRAL Both Chartres Cathedral and the abbey church of Saint-Denis had long construction histories, an ...

(FIGS. 18-9and 18-10a). The trifo- rium occupies the space correspond- ing to the exterior strip of wall covered by the sloping ...

T he great cathedrals erected throughout Europe in the later 12th and 13th centuries are the enduring symbols of the Gothic age. ...

CHARTRES AFTER 1194Churches burned frequently in the Middle Ages (see “Timber Roofs,” Chapter 17, page 435), and church official ...

A change in vault design and the abandonment of the alternate- support system usually accompanied this new bay arrangement. The ...

Gothic passion for luminous colored light led to a most daring and successful attempt to subtract all superfluous material bulk ...

of the Holy Ghost on his shoulder. Thus, the sculptor did not con- trast the three men simply in terms of their poses, gestures, ...

AMIENS CATHEDRAL Chartres Cathedral was one of the most influential buildings in the history of architecture. Its builders set a ...

Cathedral (FIG. 18-8) in the spacing of the funnel-like and gable- covered portals. But the Amiens builders punctured the upper ...

REIMS CATHEDRAL Construction of Reims Cathedral (FIG. 18-23), where the coro- nations of the kings of France took place, began o ...

different workshops and one—the angel Gabriel—was first set in the left portal and then moved to its present location, which exp ...

than three-quarters of the structure. The supporting elements are hardly more than large mullions,or vertical stone bars. The em ...

a bewildering complexity of views that is the hallmark of the Flam- boyant style. CARCASSONNEThe Gothic period has been called “ ...

clothmakers of Bruges, begun in 1230. Situ- ated in the city’s major square, it testifies to the important role of artisans and ...

Book Illumination and Luxury Arts Paris’s claim as the intellectual center of Gothic Europe (see “Scholas- ticism,” page 466) di ...