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    Gothic architecture developed in 12th century France and lasted through the 16th century. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and used pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses to allow for taller buildings with large windows. Characteristic Gothic features included stained glass windows, rose windows, intricate facades, and ornate towers and spires. Gothic architecture was widely applied to churches, cathedrals, palaces, and other buildings during the medieval period.

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    Gothic architecture developed in 12th century France and lasted through the 16th century. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and used pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses to allow for taller buildings with large windows. Characteristic Gothic features included stained glass windows, rose windows, intricate facades, and ornate towers and spires. Gothic architecture was widely applied to churches, cathedrals, palaces, and other buildings during the medieval period.

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    GOTHIC

    PERIOD
    Gothic architecture is a style of architecture
    that flourished during the high and late
    medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque
    architecture and was succeeded by
    Renaissance architecture.

    Originating in 12th-century France and lasting


    into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was
    known during the period as Opus
    Francigenum ("French work") with the term
    Gothic first appearing during the latter part of
    the Renaissance.
    • Gothic building is widely regarded as one of the great
    achievements of middle ages with its characteristic
    feature of pointed arch & vault, a technical
    development that made it possible to raise the height of
    the building and fill the walls with large window areas,
    and also stained glass windows which served both
    decorative art and illustrations of religious narratives.

    • Other features common to Gothic architecture are the


    rib vault, buttresses, including flying buttresses; large
    windows which are often grouped, or have tracery;
    rose windows, towers, spires and pinnacles; and
    ornate façades.

    Monografie de la Cathedrale de Chartres The sexpartite ribbed vault at


    Saint Etienne, Caen
     As an architectural style, Gothic developed primarily in
    ecclesiastical architecture, and its principals and
    characteristic forms were applied to other types of
    buildings. Buildings of every type were constructed in
    the Gothic style, with evidence remaining of simple
    domestic buildings, elegant town houses, grand
    palaces, commercial premises, civic buildings, castles,
    city walls, bridges, village churches, abbey churches,
    abbey complexes and large cathedrals.

     The characteristic forms that were to define Gothic


    architecture grew out of Romanesque architecture and
    developed at several different geographic locations, as
    the result of different influences and structural
    requirements.

    The Parish Church of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, England


    Characteristics of Gothic cathedrals and great churches

     While many secular buildings exist from the Late Middle Ages, it is in the
    buildings of cathedrals and great churches that Gothic architecture displays its
    pertinent structures and characteristics to the fullest advantage. A Gothic
    cathedral or abbey was, prior to the 20th century, generally the landmark
    building in its town, rising high above all the domestic structures and often
    surmounted by one or more towers and pinnacles and perhaps tall spires.
    These cathedrals were the skyscrapers of that day and would have been the
    largest buildings by far that Europeans would ever have seen. It is in the
    architecture of these Gothic churches that a unique combination of existing
    technologies established the emergence of a new building style. Those
    technologies were the ogival or pointed arch, the ribbed vault, and the buttress.

     The Gothic style, when applied to an ecclesiastical building, emphasizes


    verticality and light. This appearance was achieved by the development of
    certain architectural features, which together provided an engineering solution.
    The structural parts of the building ceased to be its solid walls, and became a
    stone skeleton comprising clustered columns, pointed ribbed vaults and flying
    buttresses.

    The sexpartite ribbed vault at Saint Etienne,


    Caen
     Cloisters and passage ways in religious houses were
    used for work & study by dividing with wooden partitions
    and screens into individual compartments called
    “carrels”
     Mural Decorations came into importance
     Pointed arch forms in door & window ( moldings)around
    fire places & ceilings
     Wooden furniture of increasing quality & elaboration &
    functional variety.
     Chairs & benches with designs that seem to derive from
    simple box chest, with a frame of heavy members & thin
    inserted panels similar to rail & panel construction.
     Slab-ended stools with edges of supports shaped like
    buttresses became famous.
    GOTHIC FURNITURE

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