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Art and Music 1150-1300 The Gothic Style

Art and Music 1150-1300 The Gothic Style. Gothic Architecture and Sculpture. Features of Gothic Churches Pointed arches and Rib vaults Flying buttresses Stained glass windows (light as a symbol of Jesus) Verticality. Abbot Suger Remodeled the Church of St. Denis Invented the new style.

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Art and Music 1150-1300 The Gothic Style

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  1. Art and Music1150-1300The Gothic Style

  2. Gothic Architecture and Sculpture • Features of Gothic Churches • Pointed arches and Rib vaults • Flying buttresses • Stained glass windows (light as a symbol of Jesus) • Verticality

  3. Abbot Suger • Remodeled the Church of St. Denis • Invented the new style The Benedictine Abbey of St. Denis

  4. Characteristics of Gothic Architecture 1. Pointed arches (b) with ribbed vaulting (d) as opposed to the rounded arches and vaulting (a and c) of the Romanesque style a b c d

  5. 2. Flying Buttresses Results: Thinner walls Higher walls Windows

  6. Flying Buttresses and Windows

  7. Luminosity in the form of beautiful stained-glass windows (Suger and his theology of light). • “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12)

  8. 4. Verticality -- Pointing the way to God • St. Piere de Beauvais (1247) at 157 feet

  9. Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris:

  10. Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris: View toward Choir or Apse

  11. The Gargoyles of Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris

  12. Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (1194-1220)

  13. Famous for its stained glass windows

  14. Rose windows fleur-de-lys

  15. Lancet windows

  16. "the Bible of the poor" Tree of Jesse Window Jesus Window

  17. Sainte Chapelle (“Holy Chapel”), Paris (1243-1248)

  18. Sainte Chapelle (1243-1248), Lower Chapel

  19. Sainte Chapelle (1243-1248), Upper Chapel

  20. Gothic Polyphony: Notre Dame of Paris • Florid Organum

  21. Discant Clausula Florid Discant

  22. Two Gothic Composers 42 • Leonin • Perotin Sederunt principes, Et adversum me loquebantur; Et iniqui persecuti sunt me. The rulers were seated in council, And they spoke against me; And my enemies persecuted me. Nave, Notre Dame

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