ARTH 313 Midterm: Gothic church, Chartres
Document Summary
Instruments for telling time in the middle ages (bells, sundial, astrolabe, hour glass, mechanical clocks in the 14th century) Stained glass windows that draw on the circular diagrammatic form. The gothic rib vault and its technological advantages. Medieval conceptions of (cid:498)time(cid:499) [for example the fluidity of time, the blurring of past, present and future. Augustine"s conception of the six ages of the world and the seventh final age, Christ"s second coming and the end of the world/history. Division of the day into hours of prayer the church calendar: temporal, based on events of christ"s life; sanctory, saints days. The (cid:498)encyclopedic nature(cid:499) of iconography at chartres cathedral. Financial and social problems related to massive construction campaigns [chartres] New sites for and the expansion of imagery with gothic construction-concentrate on. St-denis and chartres and imagery presented in lectures and camille text. Medieval concepts of knowledge and memory and its presentation in diagrammatic form. Sancta camisa, the revered tunic of the virgin.
