1050) white mantle of churches Feudalism, Monasticism, Pilgrimage Roads, Cluny Architectural Schools, vaulting, fire theory, galleries, crossing tower, radiating chapels, ambulatories, radiating chapels, chevet, Tympanum, historiated capitals
Map of Europe indicating principal pilgrimage routes through France to Santiago de Compostela, 11th/12th centuries
Main Pilgrimage Churches: St Martin, Tours [destroyed]; St Martial, Limoges [destoroyed], St Foi, Conques; St Sernin, Toulouse; St James, Santiago de Compostela, ca. 1078-1122
*Romanesque, int. St. James, gallery, barrel vaulted ceiling, compound piers
Romanesque, Cluny, Church of Sts. Peter and Paul [third church] beg. 1088 [France] destroyed
Romanesque, Church of S. Lazare, Autun, ca. 1120-1145 [France] with later additions
*Romanesque, Gislebertus [sculptor? patron?], Last Judgment, tympanum, entrance to S. Lazare, Autun, 1120-1145 [France}
*Romanesque, S. Lazare, Annunication to the Magi, ca. 1125 [France], historiated capital
THE GOTHIC (1137-16TH CENTURY) Gothische Abbot Suger (1081-1151) S. Denis, Abbey Church Ile de France First Gothic High Gothic Rayonnant Flamboyannt
CROSS RIBBED VAULTING A method of spanning space involving 1) the division of the structure into bays; 2) each bay is constructed by a skeletal system of arches which intersect one another at right angles along the groin; 3) the voussoirs of each arch are formed out of stones which are carved to form a continuous ledge or lip, which supports arcs of filler stones (called webbing) A construction technique of spanning an interior space in stone using independent pointed arches which intersect one another at right angles along the groin and support arcs of stone webbing between the arches septpartite sexpartite quadripartite
St. Denis, Abbey Church, plans, 8th century through 12th century
FLYING BUTTRESS A method of adding support to the upper nave walls of Gothic cathedrals by transferring tension from cross-ribbed vaulting by arches to independently constructed buttresses located on the outside walls of the lower side aisles
*Chartres, interior
*Reims, Notre Dame, Annunciation (ca. 1255) and Visitation (ca. 1230)
PAINTING MEDIA Paint: pigment, vehicle, binder Support: wall (mural),panel, canvas, paper (easel pictures) Tempera: egg yoke, gesso (gypsum), bole, cradelling Fresco: buon [true] fresco, fresco secco, fresco a secco [lapis lazuli, ultramarine] Buon fresco: arriccio [rough coat], intonaco, gionata[e], sinopia Transfer drawings: cartoon, incising, pouncing Oil painting: panel, canvas, size, ground, varnish
*Giotto, Virgin and Child Enthroned, 1305-1310 for Churchof the Ognissanti, Florence, presently Uffizi
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effects of Good and Bad Government, fresco, 13381340, Siena, Pal. Pubblico