Medieval Test 3

Front 1

St. Denis, West Facade, 1130-40

Back 1

Attracts donations.

Vertical thrust upwards (start of the French Gothic).

Front 2

St. Denis, Interior, c.12 and c.13

Back 2

"Heroic tradition" looking at the Hagia Sophia.

Pointed Gothic arch.

Quadripartite arch.

Ribbed vault.

Front 3

Notre Dame, Paris, built by Bishop Maurice de Sully, 1163-1200

Back 3

Four-part elevation.

Flying buttress.

Remodelled in 1125.

Front 4

Notre Dame, Paris, built by Bishop Maurice de Sully, 1163-1200

Back 4

(Interior)

Front 5

Chartres Cathedral, 1194-1220, Chartres France

Back 5

Built after a fire.

Said to hold the cloak of Mary, which was saved in the fire.

The "home of the Virgin Mary".

Had "plate tracery".

Front 6

Chartres Cathedral, 1194-1220, Chartres France

Back 6

(Interior)

Front 7

North Transept ("The Virgin's Portal"), Coronation of the Virgin, Chartres Cathedral, 1205-1215

Back 7

Coronation of the Virgin as the "Queen of Heaven".

Basic triangular composition.

New stylistic change.

Front 8

Notre Dame de la Bella Verriere, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1170

Back 8

"Seated Virgin and Christ child" copies the statue of the high altar.

Mary wears a crown and head dress.

Front 9

Reims Cathedral, 1211

Back 9

Uses bar tracery instead of plate tracery.

Looks like Chartres: slender arches, quadripartite vaults.

Front 10

Reims Cathedral, 1211, Reims France

Back 10

(Interior)

Front 11

Visitation Group, West Facade, Reims, c. 1230-1255

Back 11

S-curve, elongated legs.

First smile because he's expressing joy.

Front 12

Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 1241-8, by Louis IX (later St. Louis)

Back 12

Bar tracery as a structural support.

The "glass cage" effect of the Rayonnant Style: while walls are stained glass.

Front 13

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux by Jean Pucelle, November Page, 1325-8, Cloisters Museum

Back 13

A book to regulate times when you pray and your overall devotion to the religion.

These books were status symbols too.

Front 14

Lovers Playing Chess, Ivory mirror case, c. 1300, 4 1/2" in diameter

Back 14

Game of love and conquest: hints at sex within the folds of clothes and leg crossing.

Front 15

Canterbury Cathedral, 1174-1220, by William of Sens, for St. Thomas Beckett

Back 15

William of Sens was a French architect who was imported to England to bring the French Gothic style.

Double columns look antique like Sta. Costanza.

An allegory for Beckett: he is shown seated like an emperor and there's his head as a relic on display.

Front 16

Canterbury Cathedral, 1174-1220, by William of Sens, for St. Thomas Beckett

Back 16

(Interior)

Front 17

Lincoln Cathedral, for Hugh of Avalon (later St. Hugh), by Geoffrey Noiers, from 1192

Back 17

Marble only used in England: "purbeck".

"Crazy vaults".

Front 18

Lincoln Cathedral, for Hugh of Avalon (later St. Hugh), by Geoffrey Noiers, from 1192

Back 18

(Interior)

Front 19

Westminster Abbey, King Henry III, begun 1245 by Master Henry of Reynes, nave completed in 1269

Back 19

Trying to compete with French Gothic.

First example of bar tracery in England.

Front 20

Westminster Abbey, King Henry III, begun 1245 by Master Henry of Reynes, nave completed in 1269

Back 20

(Interior)

Front 21

Westminster Abbey, Cosmati Pavement

Back 21

Where all kings were crowned.

Spolia.

Looks to Italian art (Sta. Maria in Rome).

Front 22

William de Brailes, Oxford Illuminator, c. 1230-40

OR

Matthew Paris, "Matthew in Prayer in his Historian Angolorum", c. 1250-59

Back 22

Represents himself as a dryer.

Book of Hours.