ARTHIST 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Transept, Tracery, Aisle
1 Nov 2016
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Gothic out of the box: chartres and bourges. Build on experimental work, but transform these into cohesive gothic visions. Try to unravel the story from the monument itself detective work: floating in the void as we don"t have historical texts. Gigantic architecture new inventive ways of raising funding: purgatory. Takes on an active presence in early 13th century right as the large cathedrals being built. Negotiable less time if you did good works (including contributions, etc) Indulgences sale by the church of time out of purgatory: since only god knows the time, any time out is a good thing. Although we don"t have evidence of indulgences used, we know that this was a thing. Cleaned: now seen that there is false masonry underneath the plaster and paint was rough and rubble like false jointing . How does it stand up: by now, fully integrated in gothic buildings the concept of the flying buttresses.
