Hb Gothic

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Gothic

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it has a negative connotation and means lot of light and it immerges from France.

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Abbot Suger

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He argues that the light can create a relationship with God unlike Saint Burnard.
- He writes a lot. He brought the idea to re built the church and what goes in to church like ornaments, stained glass windows and interior of the church. The interior of church the light should be transformed, bringing me a good a better relationship with God. He lives the same time with St. Bernard. He brings the idea light in relationship with God so his inspiration was creates bring a light is like to bring a divine to the space (structure) to create a divine.
Church of Saint Denis

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Church of Saint Denis

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is a church associated with the French king and a man who brought Christianity in France, the church of French kings. The birthplace of Gothic art and architecture was Saint Denis, where Abbot Suger used rib vaults with pointed arches and stained- glass window to rebuild the Carolingian royal church.

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Chevet

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in the Gothic era we call the east part of the church, open up space and have many more windows, architecture are one unit because the use Groian vault.(You don’t see in England Gothic)

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Pieta

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A painted or sculpted representation of the virgin Marry mourning over the body of the dead Christ. (the pity is Marry hold the dead Jesus image).

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Flying buttress

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An exterior masonry structure that opposes the lateral thrust of an arch or a vault. A pier buttress is a solid mass of masonry. A flying buttress consist typically of an inclined member carried on an arch or a serious of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmit lateral thrust.( The exterior masonry support that holds walls.)