ARTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Strasbourg Cathedral, Cologne Cathedral, Westminster Abbey
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Choir of gloucester cathedral, gloucester, england, 1332-1357. Robert and william vertue, chapel of henry vii, westminister abbey, london, All of tudor monarchs are buried except henry viii. Perpendicular thicket, pulled down in fan-like shapes (as if embroidery) Gerhard of cologne cathedral, germany 1248; nave, fa ade, and towers completed 1880. Germans were relatively late to gothic bandwagon. Considered to be the largest cathedral in northern europe. Germany: interior: saint elizabeth marburg, germany 1235-1283. Interior: skinny lancet windows: hall church, aisles and nave are the same size, romanesque on exterior, no flying buttresses, transept as big as choir, single space. Germany: sculpture: death of the virgin, strasbourg cathedral, france 1230. Fits inside space, informed by classical models. Ekkehard and uta, statues in west choir, cathedral naumburg, Painted limestone: believed they used live models, lifelike, secular figures. Equestrian portrait (bamberg rider), bamberg cathedral, germany, 1235-1240, sandstone: believed someone posed for this, architectural canopy, above head.
