ENGL 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chartres Cathedral, Milan Cathedral, Gregorian Chant
28 Jan 2017
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Profound shift in the way people think. Middle ages (5th century ad to 1200) Church of san francesco, pescia, italy (1235) Lack of interest in human body, not realistic of it. If human body will be abandoned before heaven it was not important to portray it perfectly. Hands are held up in artificial gestures. Collapse of rome in mid 5th century ad (everything was based on faith . Shift that the world to come was more important than this world. Gothic era was the end of middle ages. Christianity: gothic architecture is intended to appeal to emotion and spirit, height, light and majesty. Old testament kings and queen royal portal (chartres. Ste. chapelle (paris, 1243-1248: buildings were structured to have stained-glass, light was important because god is light, coloured sparking light reminds that god is everywhere, medieval mindset rejects materiality of this world. Ste. chapelle is almost entirely made of light.
