ARTH 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: English Gothic Architecture, Khan Academy, Rose Window
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1112 a monk, is put in charge in rebuilding the carolinian church, which became too small. He took the opportunity to totally rebuild the church, and express inventions. Khan academy video available about the saint denis church. Introduction into stained-glass: new or novel light, change the interior of the church, skeletal architecture. Reduce size or columns, and size of building, and emphasize the lightness of the windows: rose window, typically seen in the vasaud. New pointed arches: narrow, tall rather than wide and short. Flying buttresses: supports which look like they are flying on the exterior, stabilize the buildings as they get higher and higher, gothic architecture element, height of gothic buildings was higher because of these buttresses. Byzantine (mosaics, gold, christian buildings, basilicas, central plan emphasis (hagia sofia)) Estrictians (illuminated manuscripts, (book of kels) decorated objects) Carolinian (introduces christianity (justinian, charlemagne) manuscripts have more patterns, visual and literacy)