Gothic Architecture.pdf

Gothic Architecture

Montilla, Carolina

Romanesque VS Gothic

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Gothic has more windows and bigger ones.

Reason: architects learned new ways of making roofs and

supporting walls.

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Romanesque churches are darker.

Gothic are usually bigger because people had more money

to spend around 1200 ad.

•Romanesque churches only used wooden roofs and gothic

also used stone roofs.

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Romanesque VS Gothic

Duomo di Pisa, Italy

Westminster Abbey, England

Gothic style- beginnings & definition

•a style of architecture developed in

northern France that spread throughout

Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries

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it followed the Romanesque period

•originated at the abbey church of Saint

Denis

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characterized by slender vertical piers,

flying buttresses and by vaulting and

pointed arches

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