FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Grant Wood, Fan Vault, Beauvais Cathedral
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Earlier romanesque architecture: round arches, thick walls, small windows, barrel vaults or timber ceilings, columns preserving roman elements (base, shaft, capital, keeps basic forms of greek models, gothic"s pointed arches, ribs made for, structure. Round = width set, unstable if no height is uneven, dome vault. Arches maybe higher, more latitude in use of arches, uniformity: aesthetic. Great gothic cathedrals: chartres, reims, amiens, beaurais, bourges, cathedral = seat for bishop. Located in important cities: both people essential for building, benedictines, order of monks built abbey, begging, poor, preaching, dominicans, franciscans, city, bishop, abbots vying to have their institute with cathedral, ex. Linear architecture, contours of pointed arches: higher ceilings = closer to heaven, dematerialized architecture, spoke as a metaphor of place of heaven, thin columns required structural, flying buttresses attachments to side of wall, dematerialized with open arches. The glass cage rayonnant radiant gothic architecture: radiance of glass ex. Paris, st. chappelle, 1246 built by king of france.
