1. Gothic Art

2. Gothic Art in France

3. Ile-de-France

4. Characteristics of Gothic Style
• Elegant soaring
buildings
• Light – through
stained glass
• Ribbed Groin vaults
• Pointed Arch
• Flying buttresses and
high walls

5. Politics and Society
• Development of
Towns
• Economy
• Intellectual pursuits
• Age of the Cathedral

6. Black Death: The Bubonic Plague

7. France

8. Suger, St. Denis, 1140-44, Gothic

9. Abbot Suger

10. Town

11. Ground plan

12. Exterior

13. Sculpture

14. Interior

15. Floor plan of choir

16. Interior with windows

17. Stained Glass Windows

18. Chartres Cathedral, c.1134-1220,
Gothic

19. Gothic Art in France

20. Triforium

22. Flying Buttress

23. Ground plan

24. Nave

25. Royal Portal, West Façade Chartres, c.1145-55

26. Jamb Sculpture

27. Jamb Sculpture

28. Stained Glass

29. Details

30. Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral,
c.1224, Gothic

31. Detail

32. Plate tracery and Bar tracery

33. Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, 1163-
c1270, Gothic

34. West Façade

35. Gargoyles

36. Nave drawing

37. Nave

38. Ground plan

39. Piers and Columns

40. Windows

41. Flying Buttresses

42. Portal Sculpture

43. Reims Cathedral, c.1211-1428

44. Annunciation & Visitation, c.1230-45,
Gothic

45. Detail

46. Comparison

47. Detail

48. Sainte-Chapelle, c.1243-48, Rayonnant
Gothic

49. Interior

50. Detail

51. Independent
Sculpture

52. Virgin and Child, c.1339, International
Gothic Style

53. Fleur-de-lis

55. Book Arts

56. Developments in Manuscript
Illumination
• Center moves to Paris
• Rise of University –
rise in books
• Cottage industry
• New types of books
develop

57. Lodge Books
• Tool of master mason
• Visual guide
• Describes how to
create the elements

58. Bible Moralisee, 1266-34, Gothic

59. Psalter of Saint Louis, 1253-70,
Court Style/Gothic

60. Other page

61. Pucelle, Book of Hours of Jeanne
d’Evereux, c.1325-28, Gothic

62. Perpetual Calendar

63. Book of Hours of Jeanne d’Evereux

64. Annunciation detail

65. England

66. Political Situation
• Plantagenet dynasty
(1154-1485)
• Conflicts
• Territory changes
• Great Patrons of the
Arts/Architecture

67. Cistercian Example

68. Salisbury Cathedral, c.1220-58,
English Gothic

69. Interior

70. Gothic Castle layout

71. Germany &
The Holy Roman
Empire

72. Political Situation
• Decentralized
• Hall church
• Emperors and
patrons of the arts
• Sculptural center -
Mosan

73. Verdun, The Shrine of the Three
Kings, c.1190-1205, Gothic

75. Ekkehard and Uta, c.1245-60, Gothic

76. Detail

77. Vesperbild, c.1330, Gothic

78. Italy

79. Political Situation
• Age of division and
economic expansion
• Germany/Holy Roman
Empire no longer a force
• France & Spain & Papal
Authority & Independent
City States
• Artist emerges end of 13th
century

80. Painting

81. Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned,
c.1280, Gothic

82. Detail

83. Giotto, Arena Chapel, 1305-6, Gothic

88. Lamentation