Gothic Cathedrals was a new kind of building in France in 1130. Most of Europe were filled with them except Italy. It was a monument to mans spiritual aspirations, but also enhanced or established a city’s prestige and importance.
Gothic Cathedrals was an architecture started by the Abby Church of Saint Denis. Basically, the cathedrals represented what they worshipped. Abbot Sugar was the man who actually invented the architecture called the forcade and the Rose window. Sugar really wanted to create a physical representation of the Treavenly Jerusalem.
The churches were filled with a high degree of linearity that was filled with beautiful light and color. Some of the tradition of the cathedrals or churches was a rectangular hall with a wooden roof. They had twin arches or colonnades separating the central space from aside the aisles. Pavements of marble or mosaic drew or lead the worshiper from the end of the church to the other. That was called the “Sacred Way.”
The most fundamental element of Gothic Style architecture is the pointed arch. The pointed arch was borrowed from the Islamic architecture that would have been in Spain. The pointed arch revealed some thrust and stress on the other elements. That became possible to reduce the size of the columns or piers that supported the arch.
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Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor., and Anthony Esler. World History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011. Print.
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Gothic Cathedrals was an architecture started by the Abby Church of Saint Denis. Basically, the cathedrals represented what they worshipped. Abbot Sugar was the man who actually invented the architecture called the forcade and the Rose window. Sugar really wanted to create a physical representation of the Treavenly Jerusalem.
The churches were filled with a high degree of linearity that was filled with beautiful light and color. Some of the tradition of the cathedrals or churches was a rectangular hall with a wooden roof. They had twin arches or colonnades separating the central space from aside the aisles. Pavements of marble or mosaic drew or lead the worshiper from the end of the church to the other. That was called the “Sacred Way.”
The most fundamental element of Gothic Style architecture is the pointed arch. The pointed arch was borrowed from the Islamic architecture that would have been in Spain. The pointed arch revealed some thrust and stress on the other elements. That became possible to reduce the size of the columns or piers that supported the arch.
Sources:
Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor., and Anthony Esler. World History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011. Print.
"Europe - Gothic Cathedrals." Europe - Gothic Cathedrals. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2014.
McNutt, Stacey. Churches & Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture. New York: Smithmark, 1997. Print.
Icher, François. Building the Great Cathedrals. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Print.
“Explore Smarthistory.” Smarthistory: A Multimedia Web-book about Art and Art History. N.p, n.d Web 09 Dec. 2014.
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/english-gothic-architecture.html
:http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/english-gothic-architecture.html
http://jcolen.com/European%20Photos.htm
https://www.lssu.edu/faculty/jswedene/FLEM_CH_8_NOTES_LATEMED_LECTURE_TOTAL.html
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/english-gothic-architecture.html