4. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
Started in 12th-century France
In the 16th century was known as the "French Style"
Main features include:
Pointed arch
Ribbed vault
Flying buttress
5. Pointed Arches
Appeared in 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian Brick
Architecture.
The ancient Romans learned the arch from the Etruscans
Kylemore Gothic Church
8. Ribbed Vault
Ribbed Vaulting system was adopted as structural elements.
The interior of Gothic cathedral gives a feeling of spaciousness and
great height.
Vaulted Staircase of Christ Church, Oxford
9. Gothic rib-vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris
San Sebastian Church in the Philippines
10. Flying Buttress
Flying Buttress was another principle element that developed in the
developed in the Gothic Period.
Flying Buttresses were used as structural elements.
Flying buttresses are usually constructed on religious building.
Notre Dame, Paris
16. Painting : Stained Glasses
Cathédrale Notre Dame
de Paris begun
Cathédrale de Notre-
Dame de Reims, Reims,
France
17. Painting : Manuscripts and printma
Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, by Jean Pucelle, Paris, 132
18. Sculptures : Monumental sculpture
French ivory Virgin
and Child, end of
"Ukrainian Manifesto"
The Magi at Strasbou
19. Painting : Portable sculpture
Gargoyles at Notre Dame,
Paris, by Viollet-le-Duc and
Eugene Emmanuel (1814-79)
20. GOTHIC
FILMS
Gothic films are described as films that draw from
the Gothic tradition in literature. This means that
they have dark and sometimes supernatural
elements like:
Dark and doom and gloomy atmosphere
Graveyard, creeks, dark stairways, attics,
abandoned buildings, monasteries
Monsters and Witches
Heroes and heroin in trouble