ARTH2221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Notre Dame De Paris, North Portal, Saskatchewan, Quadrivium
3 Sep 2016
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Notre dame, paris (1225-50) diagonal jambs interpreting as being more inviting rose windows with tracery gallery of king horizontality vertically finiel crocket buttressing oculus transitional piece - romanesque like -> gothic. Humanism in faces nested vs zigzag blown up piece of drapery - romanesque (left) angels with wings and representation of the visitation (right) shepard head fits into the form patterning of the beard. Central portal - labor of the months and the zodiacs of the months 24 elders with musical instruments + prophets on either side. The face itself is more naturalistic and human like. North portal - old testament - cold side. Central portal - shows the dormition with angels and another example of heaven. There is mary and jesus (central figures in hierarchial scale) Moses in a column, king david are portrayed less naturalistic. Left = ascension, center = second coming, right = virgin mary. Voussoirs show astrological signs and labors of monks.
