Gothic Architecture Analysis

The buildings of the Italian Cisternians consisted of a central hall for the crowds to gather, side aisles, and apse. With rectilinear forms challenge the French architecture, also with small windows, one example is the magnificent, Basilica of San Francisco, located in Assisi. The fresco painting on the walls was also an important characteristic of this period. Also, its desire to evoke the Franciscan connection with poverty influenced the architecture. Simply but magnificent is the definition for this basilica. Although the Basilica of San Francisco had the gothic style impregnated in other characteristics including its arches, it differed from French churches. The French buildings and churches had important large stained-glass windows like the ones at the Notre-Dame Basilica located in Paris, which represented its gothic style. An example the image 13.5 which is a plan of Fontenay Abbey. Also in the design and …show more content…
For some, the start of the Renaissance. Some of the most important artist of the time who creates the famous three madonnas. Each Madonna represented the style of these paintors;
Cimabue a famous painter, who painted monumental crucifix panels, and other art work in churches. One of its masterpieces is The Virgin Enthroned with Angels (One of the three Madonnas), located at the Louvre in Paris. Which has a sense of realism which characterized his artwork. In this painting, there was no central point of perspective and no graduation in size, these are some ways to analyze his