ARTHIST 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Fan Vault, Henry Yevele, Scriptorium
11 Dec 2016
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Lower cost and ease/sped of execution: perpendicular is invented by one architect (michael of canterbury) in one building very unusual, somewhat like st-denis. Gloucester cathedral: tomb of edward ii c. 1327-8. South transept: michael of canterbury begins here in 1328 as a dress rehearsal for the choir, romanesque elevation given a face-lift with a screen of very streamlined. Small vault cells with liernes making x patterns. The opposite of decorated tracery nothing but panels and grids. Celestial hierarchy placed over the earthly ( Not completely flat use aerodynamics to send the wind around it/dispersing it. Cloister c. 1351-64: niches for monks/ scriptorium, earliest instance of the fan vault, where the monks had their scriptorium. Nave: romanesque building remodeled in the perpendicular style under bishops. Edington and william of wykeham, c. 1360-1400: elevation divided into two, not three, stories, wooden ceiling replaced with stone vault (tierceron with liernes, instead of three story becomes two levels.
