Medieval Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sex Segregation, Maurice De Sully, Cobalt Blue
9 May 2013
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Mix sand, limestone and ash for stained glass windows. Metallic oxides to make glass coloured (copper = ruby, cobalt = blue, iron oxide. Sautered into canes then larger frames with bars. Re-led around every 200 years (more often with pollution) Flight into egypt = painted and re-fired see process. Plan = unshaped end, unified, no radiating chapels. Plan = rib vaults, large glass, large wall buttresses at right angles outside, 6 part vault. 1220s change to choir made longer more people. Interior = each bay new 6 part vault. Central tower for light over crossing for drama. 4 part nave elevation trademark of early gothic. Life of christ becomes elaborated in stained glass windows. Notre means our lady, almost all gothic churches with this name. Was a palace and cathedral, where paris began. Paris invented flying buttresses (dissolve mass like web) 4 part rib vault along aisles and 6 part nave.
