Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century).
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Gothic Architecture in England
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Gothic architecture in Britain has been neatly divided into 4 periods, or styles.
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Gothic architecture
The west door of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France is a fine example of Early Gothic architecture (begun 1160).
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Gothic Revival: Victorian Gothic Styles
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Gothic Revival Churches
The Gothic Revival can be divided into two groups, anything done before 1841 was a romantic Gothic.
Gothic architecture has always been seen as symbolism for a dark, mysterious and deeply religious era in time, with the powerful meaning of its cathedrals still rising out of modern day villages and communities.
GOTHIC REVIVAL (c.1825-c.1870)
The picturesque and pointed forms of the Gothic Revival style were derived from medieval Gothic architecture. This style was first used in Vermont in the mid 1820s for churches.
The Gothic revival style was influenced from medieval Gothic architecture. Early in the period, Gothic Revival houses were constructed of stone and brick imitating the castles and magnificent cathedrals of Europe.
gargoyle - a spout usually carved in the shape of an animal or demon, and connected to a gutter for throwing rain water from the roof of a building. See Gothic Field Guide Spotlight.
Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture
Altar: Elevated structure located in the choir at the east end of the church, where religious rites are performed (fig.1).
Gothic Architecture
The term Gothic was first used during the later Renaissance, and as a term of contempt.
Gothic Revival
The Gothic Revival style developed in England in the 18 th century, and was boosted in the 19 th century by the chivalric writings of Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Love Peacock.
Gothic and Renaissance Architecture
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The influence of English romanticism and the mass production of elaborate wooden millwork after the Industrial Revolution fueled the construction of Gothic Revival homes in the mid-1800s.
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By the 1830s this romantic style, which developed in England, became popular in the U.S.
Gothic Revival
This style is the opening act for the Victorian Age. It is a reflection of the Picturesque movement (an aesthetic point of view celebrating the variety, texture, and irregularity inherent in nature) that began in Europe.
Gothic
An architectural style prevalent in western Europe from the 12th through the 15th century and characterized by pointed arches, rib vaulting, and flying buttresses.
Gothic Revival
Rediscovery by the Victorians of mediaeval Gothic style.
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GOTHIC
Period of Medieval architecture prevalent in Western Europe from 12th to 16th century. Characterized by the pointed arch and large windows with ornate tracery. Can be subdivided into Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular.
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GOTHIC REVIVAL c. 1850 to 1870
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GOTHIC WINDOW: a triple arched window where the centre pane is taller than the sides. Most commonly seen in churches. (IMAGE) ...
Gothic-head window: Usually removable for easy cleaning, grilles give the appearance of a divided window pane.
Grille (or muntin bar): Usually removable for easy cleaning, grilles give the appearance of a divided window pane.
Gothic
The dominant architectural style in the Middle Ages, used primarily from the later 12th century until the mid 16th century. It is characterised by pointed arches, rib-vaults, and large tracery windows.
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The period of mediaeval architecture characterised by the use of the pointed arch. For its subdivisions see Early English, Geometric, Decorated, Perpendicular and Flamboyant
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Gothic Arch
A vertically pointed arch used in windows, entryways and numerous other decorative motifs.
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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE A style of architecture that was prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 until 1550. In England, Gothic is normally divided into three succeeding phases - Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular.
Gothic. Style which influenced first architecture and later painting, sculpture and the minor arts. It developed in France during the mid-12th century and spread throughout Europe and Italy from the 13th to the 15th centuries.
Gothic : A style employed in Europe during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries; also called pointed.
Gothic Revival
An artistic movement dating from the eighteenth century onwards. There were many phases of the Gothic Revival, with different periods and sources of medieval architecture fashionable at various times.
Gothic - Architectural style characterised by verticality, with pointed arches and windows, buttresses, clerestory windows and roofs vaulted or with exposed timber structure.
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At the beginning of the 12th century, the Romanesque idiom was gradually replaced by Gothic style.
Gothic revival
- Gothic architecture never died, but it was only from the early 1800s that it began to re-emerge in a serious fashion.
Gothic cellar under the house of the Lords of Podebrady
Celure - The panelled and adorned part of a wagon roof above the rood or the altar.
Cenotaph - A monument to a person or persons buried elsewhere.
Gothic Style
Gothic architecture developed in Europe during the medieval period, from about 500 CE to 1500 CE.
Gothic sash A window sash pattern composed of mullions that cross to form pointed arches.
grille A decorative, openwork grating, usually of iron, used to protect a window, door, or other opening.
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In Gothic architecture, leafy hooks or knobs, as on a crocket capital. Crocketing (rows of crockets) decorates the edges of pinnacles, canopies, etc.
in Gothic architecture, part of the nave wall above the arcade and below the clerestory.
Triglyph
in a Doric frieze, the rectangular area between the metopes, decorated with three vertical grooves (glyphs).
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The Gothic vaults were very difficult to build. Especially, when you have to get the stones in at the precise area, or the whole thing would collapse.
Early Gothic Renaissance France. Netherlands. St Vincent St Patrice Rouen.
St Godard Church of St Foy, Conches. Church of St Gervais, Paris. Church of St Etienne-du-Mont, Paris.
Church of St Martin, Montmorency., Church of Ecouen.
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FOIL In Gothic window tracery, the small arc openings separated by cusps. The number of foils is described as trefoil (3), quatrefoil (4), and cinquefoil (5).
FRENCH WINDOW A window that opens to the floor in two hinged parts.
Flamboyant Gothic - The last phase of French Gothic (fourteenth, fifteenth and part of sixteenth century), named after its flame-like tracery.
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Wall surface material extends up into gable
Side-gabled or front-gabled Roof: Steep pitch,
Slight eave overhang, open, not boxed
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Ballflower: A globular motif often used in concave moldings of English Gothic architecture. It looks like a flower with three (or sometimes four) petals nearly closed over a central ball.
buttress A projecting support built into or against the external wall of a building, typically used in Gothic buildings.
gothic general term for a style of architecture and ornament prevalent between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, considered old-fashioned in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaulting, ...
The idea of arches became a central theme of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Roman architecture is also characterized by vaulted ceilings.
Greek architecture - Usually oval, rectangular, circular, or apsidal shaped.
There are, however, distinctive features in Cypriot Islamic architecture which may be traced to the fact that the Ottomans converted many of the existing Gothic buildings into mosques or palaces leaving the Greek Orthodox churches untouched.
the 1880s and early 1900's with sinuous natural forms; Arts and Crafts, a reactionary style which rebelled against industrialisation and encouraged manual skills and simplicity; Baroque; Classical which is based upon Greco-Roman styles; Gothic which ...
Flying Buttress: The Flying Buttress was an innovative feature of Medieval Gothic architecture.
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