Art and Architecture of the Renaissance:

1. Art and Architecture of the Renaissance: Compare / Contrast with the Gothic and Rayonnant Periods

2. Gothic and Rayonnant:

3. Gothic and Rayonnant: • The idea of the period is the all powerful church as the center of life.

4. Gothic and Rayonnant: • The idea of the period is the all powerful church as the center of life. • Pointed Arches.

5. St. Denis • Outside of Paris, France • Early Gothic • Abby Church • King’s Church • 1140-1144

7. Laon Cathedral • 1160 • Oxen on the spires tells how we can afford to have the cathedral. Example of taxation by the church. • Bishop’s Church • 4 floors: 1st floor is called the arcade; 2nd floor is the gallery; 3rd floor is the triforium; 4th floor is the clerestory.

10. Notre Dame • Paris, France • 1163

13. Chartres Cathedral • South of Paris in the city of Chartres, France • 1194-1220 • Church is in two styles because of a fire. • Romanesque and Gothic

16. Gothic and Rayonnant: • The idea of the period is the all powerful church as the center of life. • Pointed Arches. • Ribbed Vaults

17. Ste. Chapelle • King Louis IX • Rayonnant style

19. St. Denis

20. Notre Dame

21. Chartres Cathedral

22. Gothic and Rayonnant: • The idea of the period is the all powerful church as the center of life. • Pointed Arches. • Ribbed Vaults • Flying Buttresses

23. Chartres Cathedral

24. Chartres Cathedral

25. Chartres Cathedral

26. Laon Cathedral

27. Amiens Cathedral: 1220-1236

28. Amiens Cathedral

29. Beauvais Cathedral: 1225-1272 tallest Cathedral in Europe at the time 159 feet at the nave.

30. Gothic and Rayonnant: • The idea of the period is the all powerful church as the center of life. • Pointed Arches. • Ribbed Vaults • Flying Buttresses • Stained glass. • Better light for God. The church is bathed in God’s light.

31. Amiens Cathedral

32. Ste. Chapelle Cathedral

33. Ste. Chapelle Cathedral

34. Chartres Cathedral

35. Beauvais Cathedral:

36. Gothic and Rayonnant: • The idea of the period is the all powerful church as the center of life. • Pointed Arches. • Ribbed Vaults • Flying Buttresses • Stained glass. • Better light for God. The church is bathed in God’s light. • Radiating Chapels: Used for storing religious relics. (to show off to the pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostella)

37. Radiating Chapels:

38. Chartres Cathedral: Radiating Chapels

39. Items stored in Radiating Chapels:

40. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral

41. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral

42. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral • St. Chapelle:

43. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral • St. Chapelle: • Crown of thorns

44. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral • St. Chapelle: • Crown of thorns • A fragment of the true cross

45. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral • St. Chapelle: • Crown of thorns • A fragment of the true cross • The holy Lance

46. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral • St. Chapelle: • Crown of thorns • A fragment of the true cross • The holy Lance • The Holy Sponge

47. Items stored in Radiating Chapels: • Tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Chartres Cathedral • Head of John the Baptist: Amiens Cathedral • St. Chapelle: • Crown of thorns • A fragment of the true cross • The holy Lance • The Holy Sponge • The Mandylion