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Flashcards by peggyhughes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by peggyhughes
over 10 years ago
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| GOTHIC ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS | Flying Buttress Spires/Steeples Tracery Sprockets Bosses Pinnacles Pointed arches Stained glass windows Choir screen Vaults Gargoyles Corbel |
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Flying Buttress Took the weight of the roof outside the nave, allowed thinner columns |
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Spire Evolved from Norman bell towers |
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Bar Tracery (late Gothic) Plate Tracery (simpler, early Gothic) |
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PINNACLE Weighted down buttresses Decorated with organic forms called "Sprockets" |
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BOSSES Decorative, organic forms Positioned to cover the joins of ribbed vaulting |
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POINTED ARCH Designed to allow crossing of church to meet as arches of the same height Point where arch begins is called "springing" |
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CORBEL Allowed columns to "spring" straight out of wall Highly decorative with organic forms |
| Sculptures reflected craftsmen or ordinary people - communicated religion to the people. Also sculpted gargoyles as reminders of hell and sin | |
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FAN VAULTING Thin, ribbed vaults - most useless but add to linear forms that reach up to God |
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