Transcript AP Art History

AP Art History
Chapter 18 –
The Age of Great Cathedrals:
Gothic Art
Chronology: 1140 - 1500
Early Gothic: 1140-1193
Peter Abelard: 1079-1142
Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis: 1122-1151
King Louis VII of France: r. 1137-1180
Second Crusade: 1147-1149
Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor: r. 1152-1190
Chretien de Troyes, 1160-1190
King Philip Augustus of France: r. 1180-1223
Saint Francis of Assisi: 1182-1226
Royal Portal, Chartres Cathedral ca. 1145-1155
Chronology continued…
High Gothic: 1194-1299
University of Paris Founded: ca. 1200
Dante Aligheri: 1265-1321
Capture of Constantinople by Latins
Marco Polo in China: 1271-1292
- Fourth Crusade: 1204
Romance of the Rose, Part II
King John of England signs Magna Carta: 1215
- ca. 1275-1280
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor: r. 1220-1250
King Philippe Le Bel of France:
Romance of the Rose, Part I: ca. 1225-1235
- r. 1285-1314
Saint Thomas Aquinas: 1225-1274
Pope Boniface VIII canonizes
King Louis IX (Saint Louis) of France: r. 1226-1270
Louis IX: 1297
Blanche of Castile, Regent of France: 1226-1234
Treaty of Paris between Louis IX and Henry III
of England: 1259
Byzantines retake Constantinople: 1261
Amiens Cathedral - Begun 1120
Chronology continued…
Chapel of Henry VII
Late Gothic: 1300-1500:
King Edward II of England: r. 1307-1327
King Charles IV of France: r. 1322-1328
Hundred Years’ War between France and England: 1337-1453
Geoffrey Chaucer: ca. 1343-1400
Black Death first sweeps over Europe: 1347-1350
Great Schism: 1378-1417
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks: 1453
King Henry VII of England: r. 1471-1509
1503-1519
Europe about 1200
2 views of ambulatory and radiating chapels,
abbey church, Saint-Denis, France
1140-1144
Plan of the east end,
abbey church,
Saint-Denis
Vaults of the ambulatory and
radiating chapels of the choir
abbey church,
Saint-Denis
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
begun 1134, rebuilt
after 1194
Royal Portal
West façade,
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
ca. 1145-1155
Old Testament jamb statues, central doorway of Royal Portal
Chartres Cathedral
West façade of Laon Cathedral, Laon France
begun ca. 1190
Interior views of Laon Cathedral
30’
Laon
Paris
Chartres
Amiens
Elevations of Naves of 4 French Gothic Cathedrals
Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, France
begun 1163 – remodeled after 1225
Alternate views
of Notre Dame Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral (nave and plan)
detail
Virgin and Child and angels (Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere)
Chartres Cathedral – ca. 1170
Rose window and lancets
north transept,
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
ca. 1220
Saints Martin, Jerome and
Gregory, jamb statues,
Porch of the Confessors,
Chartres Cathedral
ca. 1220-1230
Saints Theodore, Stephen
and Clement
Chartres Cathedral
Interior views of Amiens Cathedral, Amiens France
begun 1220
West façade of Amiens Cathedral
Christ (Beau Dieu),
trumeau statue of
central doorway,
west façade
West façade of Reims Cathedral,
Reims, France
ca. 1225-1290
Visitation, jamb statues of central doorway, west façade,
Reims, Cathedral
ca. 1230
Interior of the upper chapel,
Sainte-Chapelle,
Paris, France
1243-1248
Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris),
Notre-Dame,
Paris, France
early 14th century
West façade of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, France
ca. 1500-1514
Aerial view of the fortified town of Carcassone, France
12th – 13th centuries
Hall of the cloth guild,
Bruges, Netherlands
begun 1230
House of Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France
1443-1451
Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux,
from the abbey church of Saint-Denis
silver gilt and enamel
1339
Blanche of Castile, Louis IX,
and two monks,
dedication page of a moralized Bible
Abraham and the three angels,
Psalter of Saint Louis
Paris, France
1253-1270
Master Honore,
David anointed by Samuel and
Battle of David and Goliath,
The Breviary of Philippe le Bel,
Paris, France
1296
Jean Pucelle,
David before Saul,
Belleville Breviary,
Paris, France
Ca. 1325
Salisbury Cathedral,
Salisbury, England
begun 1220
Plan
Plan
for Cathedral
Additional views of the Salisbury Cathedral
detail of ceiling
Interior of Gloucester Cathedral,
Gloucester, England
1332-1357
Chapel of Henry VII,
Westminster Abbey,
London, England
1503-1519
Tomb of Edward II
Gloucester Cathedral,
Gloucester, England
ca. 1330-1335
Aerial view of
Cologne Cathedral,
Cologne, Germany
begun 1248
Choir of Cologne Cathedral
completed 1322
Interior of Saint Elizabeth, Malburg, Germny
1235-1283
Death of the Virgin, tympanum of left doorway, south transept,
Strasbourg Cathedral,
Strasbourg, France
ca. 1230
Ekkehard and Uta,
statues in the west choir,
Naumburg Cathedral,
Naumburg, Germany
ca. 1249-1255
Equestrian portrait
(Bamberg Rider)
Bamberg Cathedral
ca. 1235-1240
Virgin with the Dead Christ,
(Rottgen Pieta)
Rhineland, Germany
ca. 1300-1325
detail
The Klosterneuburg Altar,
from the abbey church
at Klosterneuburg, Austria
1181
Sacrifice of Isaac
Shrine of the Three Kings from the Cologne Cathedral
ca. 1190
West façade
of Orvieto Cathedral
Orvieto, Italy
begun 1310
Doge’s Palace,
Venice, Italy
begun ca. 1340-1345
Milan Cathedral
Milan, Italy
begun 1386
Comparison Section
What are the major changes in Medieval
architectural sculpture in relation to its structural
setting as seen in St. Sernin at Toulouse (Fig. 17-21),
the Royal Portal (Fig. 18-5), and Porch of the
Confessors (Fig. 18-15)?
(Fig. 18-5)
(Fig. 18-15)
(Fig. 17-21)
What are the major changes in Medieval architectural sculpture in
relation to its structural setting as seen in St. Pierre at Moissac
(Fig. 17-23), Saint Theodore at Chartres (Fig. 18-16), and the
Visitation figures from Reims Cathedral (Fig. 18-22)?
(Fig. 17-23)
(Fig. 18-22)
(Fig. 18-16)