AD 12500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: French Gothic Architecture, Gothic Revival Architecture, Reims Cathedral
Document Summary
The middle ages: the fall and breakup of the roman empire threw western europe into a period of upheaval. Pieces from former civilizations were owned by the wealthy few, but it was the monks in monasteries who stored and recorded much of what remains, both physical and pictorial, of former civilizations. In the byzantine period the important architecture and interiors belonged to religious structures. Romanesque, 800 1150: the romanesque period is perhaps best known for stone structures featuring semicircular arches and horizontal lines, the romanesque period produced simple, heavy, and defendable buildings with thick walls, vaults, arches, and buttresses. Churches became large, important architectural statements of power and wealth: the gothic style emphasized the vertical line in design, architecture, furniture, and ornamentation.
