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Clipart images of numerous examples of gothic architecture, from full churches and buildings to structural details.
Gothic architecture in England
Gothic architecture in England, from the Norman, to the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular Gothic styles. What to see.
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The west door of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France is a fine example of Early Gothic architecture (begun 1160).
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Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
Gothic architecture - a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; ...
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 Architecture Glossaries Organized by Theme
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Gothic architecture is not merely about ornamentation. The Gothic style brought innovative new construction techniques that allowed churches and other buildings to reach great heights.
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The term Gothic was first used during the later Renaissance, and as a term of contempt.
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.
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At the beginning of the 12th century, the Romanesque idiom was gradually replaced by Gothic style.
Gothic architecture was dominant in France and the western half of Europe in the 12th through the middle of the 16th centuries.
English Gothic
Early English (Lancet Gothic)
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Gothic architecture was developed at a time when England and France were often ruled under the same crown. It was a style that developed simultaneously in Britain and northern Europe.
Gothic architecture developed in Europe during the medieval period, from about 500 CE to 1500 CE.
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).
Leaf in Gothic architecture.
foliate capital
A capital decorated with foliage elements. See also column, pier, capital ...
First phase of Gothic architecture dominant after Norman, characterised by the earliest pointed arches and simple lancet windows c1190-1250.
Estoile
A star, usually of six wavy points. Where there are more they are alternately straight and wavy.
The ribbed vault is composed of diagonally arched ribs and can be classified as tri-partite, quatri-partite (fig.5, D), or sexpartite. Sexpartite vaults have an additional transversal rib in the center of the bay (see Gothic architecture).
In France, late Gothic architecture is known as flamboyant, from the flamelike forms of its intricate curvilinear tracery. The ebullient ornamentation of the flamboyant style was largely reserved for the exteriors of the churches.
- Gothic architecture never died, but it was only from the early 1800s that it began to re-emerge in a serious fashion.
QUATREFOIL, in Gothic architecture, the piercing of tracery in a window or balustrade with small semicircular openings known as "foils"; the intersection of these foils is termed the cusp.
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A style of English Gothic architecture between c.1350-1550
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foil -"leaf" in Gothic architecture.
gingerbread - a word to describe any kind of decoration on a home found in such places as the gables, vergeboards, porches, eaves, and around windows or doors.
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.
The aesthetic qualities of Gothic architecture depend on a structural development: the ribbed vault (see Arch and Vault). Medieval churches had solid stone vaults (the structure that supports the ceiling or roof).
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.
The contribution of the Visigoths to Islamic architecture is poorly documented although it is thought that the ubiquitous horseshoe arch may be derived from Visigothic architecture.
Style of Gothic architecture which came into being at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries.
Flying Buttress: The Flying Buttress was an innovative feature of Medieval Gothic architecture.
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 Only Proper Style: Gothic Architecture in America. Boston: New Graphic Society, 1975.
Lewis, Michael J. The Gothic Revival. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
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Like corbels and bosses, gargoyles are projecting features in Gothic architecture. They served a functional purpose, throwing out water from the walls of medieval buildings.
The earliest style of Gothic architecture in England, common from c.1180-c.1250.
Ogive
The pointed arch used in Gothic architecture.
Order
A term applied to the three styles of Greek columns and entablatures (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian) and to the Roman Composite and Tuscan orders, developed from then original three orders.
arch - the pointed arch is widely regarded as the main identifiable feature of Gothic architecture (distinct from the round arch of the Romanesque period). The most common Gothic arches are the Lancet, Equilateral and Ogee.
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Historical division of English Gothic Architecture covering the period from about 1190 to 1250.
Epitaph.
(Literally -on a tomb) Inscription on a tomb or attached plate (eg. -Cartouche) ...
Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.
perpendicular : Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.
pier : A large pillar used to support a roof.
trefoil A three-lobed decorative form used in Gothic architecture
tuck-pointing See pointing.
turret A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
Compound pier - A pier composed of a group or cluster of members, especially characteristic of Gothic architecture.
Concrete - A mixture of sand, cement and aggregate (stone or gravel) that may be reinforced with ferrous metals.
Hood
Hood molding is the projection from a wall over an arch. This type of molding, seen typically in Gothic architecture, was used to protect the archway from rainwater. It also serves as a decorative frame for the top of an arch.
stereotomy: the art of cutting and dressing stone to fit vaults, especially in Gothic architecture.
stiff-leaf: stylised foliage decoration, usually of long leaves with the tops curling outwards.
stoa: a covered colonnade.
Pendant - a decorative piece (made of masonry or turned wood) suspended from a roof or vergeboard: used especially in Gothic architecture.
Pergola - Covered walk in a garden.
Plinth - The square that comes below the base of a column.
Impost - A member in the wall, usually formed of a projecting bracket-like moulding, on which the end of an arch appears to rest. In a Gothic architecture, ...
A structural support in the form of a pier or large column that has several engaged shafts or pilasters that are attached to it on one or all sides. It is especially characteristic of Gothic architecture. Also known as a compound pier.
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