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aisle
altar
apse
atrium
baptistry
campanile
chevron
choir
Trefoil, quatrefoil, cinqfoil
clerestory
Fan VaultingBath Abbey
Sherborne Abbey
Flying buttressNotre Dame, Paris
Westminster Cathedral
Jamb FiguresNotre Dame, Paris,Chartres Cathedral,
lancets
mausoleum
portal
Rose window
Rib vaulting
RefectoryChurch of St Paul in
Egyptand St. Cecilia Motherhouse in
Nashville, TN, and Alcobaca Monestery refectory in Portugal
transept
spire
tympanum
Title: Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Amicus
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Title: Map 12.1 Gothic Art in Europe
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Title: Plan of the choir and ambulatory, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, France
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Date: 1140-1144
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Title: Ambulatory, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis
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Title: West façade, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis
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Date: ca. 1135-1140
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Title: West facade, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres, France (Left spire is from 16th century)
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1145-1220
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Title: West portal (Royal Portal), Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
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Date: ca. 1145-1150
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Title: Jamb statues, west portal, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
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Title: Nave, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Laon, France
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Date: ca. 1160-1210
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Title: Plan, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris
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Date: 1163-ca. 1250
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Title: Nave, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris
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Title: West façade, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris
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Title: Plan, Cathedral of Notre-Dame (as rebuilt after 1194), Chartres
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Date: see Title
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Title: Nave and choir, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
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Date: ca. 1194-1220
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Title: Axonometric projection of a High Gothic cathedral (after Acland)
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Title: (a) Sexpartite vaulting and (b) quadripartite
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Title: Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres (from the south)
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Title: Transverse section of Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres (after Acland)
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Title: Flying buttresses, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
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Title: Transept, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
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Date: n/a
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Title: Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1170 (framing panels are 13th century)
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: stained-glass window
Size: height approx. 14' (4.27 m)
Title: Wheel of Fortune
Artist: Villard de Honnecourt
Date: ca. 1240
Source/ Museum: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Medium: ink on vellum
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Title: Front View of a Lion
Artist: Villard de Honnecourt
Date: ca. 1240
Source/ Museum: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Medium: ink on vellum
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Title: Detail from Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1170
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Title: Portals, north transept, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1204-1230
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Title: Coronation of the Virgin (tympanum), Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin (lintel), north portal, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1210
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Title: Jamb statues, south transept portal, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1215-1220; left-most figure (St. Theodore) ca. 1230
Source/ Museum: n/a
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Title: Plan, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Amiens
Artist: Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Cormont, and Renaud de Cormont
Date: begun 1220
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Title: Nave and side aisle, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Amiens
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Title: Comparison of nave elevations in same scale (after Grodecki)
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Title: Plan. Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims
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Date: ca. 1225-1290
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Title: Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims (from the west)
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Title: Annunciation and Visitation, west portal, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1230-1265
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Title: Melchizedek and Abraham, interior west wall. Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims
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Date: ca. 1260-1270
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Title: Signs of the Zodiac (Leo, Virgo, and Libra) and Labors of the Months (July, August, and September), west façade, Amiens Cathedral
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1220-1230
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Title: Sainte-Chapelle, Paris (from the southwest)
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Date: 1241-1248 (Rose window, late 15th century)
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Title: Interior of upper chapel, Sainte-Chapelle
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Date: n/a
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Title: Saint-Urbain, Troyes, France
Artist: n/a
Date: begun 1262
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Title: Interior, Saint-Urbain, Troyes
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Title: Crucifixion and Deposition, from the Psalter of Blanche of Castile
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1230
Source/ Museum: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Size: 7 3/4 x 6" (19.9 x 15.4 cm)
Title: Scenes from the Apocalypse, from a Bible moralisée
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1225-1235
Source/ Museum: Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Size: 15 x 10 1/2" (38 x 26.6 cm)
Title: Nahash the Ammonite Threatening the Jews at Jabesh, from the Psalter of St. Louis
Artist: n/a
Date: 1253-1270
Source/ Museum: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Size: 5 x 3 1/2" (13.6 x 8.9 cm)
Title: David and Goliath, from The Prayer Book of Philip IV the Fair
Artist: Master Honoré
Date: 1296
Source/ Museum: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Medium: ink and tempera on vellum
Size: 7 7/8 x 4 7/8" (20.2 x 12.5 cm)
Title: The Betrayal of Christ and Annunciation, from the Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux
Artist: Jean Pucelle
Date: 1325-1328
Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, Purchase, 1954 (54.1 1.2)
Medium: tempera and gold leaf on parchment
Size: each page: 3 1/2 x 2 7/16" (8.9 x 6.2 cm)
Title: Virgin of Jeanne d'Évreux
Artist: n/a
Date: 1339
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris (Inv MR342; MR419)
Medium: silver gilt and enamel
Size: height 27 1/2" (69 cm)
Title: Virgin of Paris, Notre-Dame, Paris
Artist: n/a
Date: early 14th century
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: stone
Size: n/a
Title: Siege of the Castle of Love. Back of a mirror
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1320-1350
Source/ Museum: Seattle Art Museum. Donald E. Frederick Memorial Collection (49.37)
Medium: ivory
Size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 1/2" (11.5 x 10.9 x 1.27 cm)
Title: West façade, Saint-Maclou, Rouen, France
Artist: Pierre Robin and Ambroise Harel
Date: 1434-1490
Source/ Museum: n/a
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Title: Plan of Salisbury Cathedral, England
Artist: n/a
Date: 1220-1265
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Title: Salisbury Cathedral (from the southwest)
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Date: spire ca. 1320-1330
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Title: Nave, Salisbury Cathedral
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Title: Choir, Gloucester Cathedral, England
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Date: 1332-1357
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Title: Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Artist: n/a
Date: 1503-1519
Source/ Museum: n/a
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Title: Jesus Teaching in the Temple and Hunting Scene, from the Queen Mary Psalter
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1310-1320
Source/ Museum: British Library, London. By permission of the British Library (ROY.2.B.VIIf1s1)
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Size: 7 x 4 1/2" (17.9 x 11.5 cm)
Title: Choir, Heiligenkreuz, Schwäbish-Gmünd, Germany
Artist: Heinrich Parler the Elder and Peter Parler (?)
Date: Begun 1351
Source/ Museum: n/a
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Title: Crucifixion, on the choir screen, and the Virgin and John the Evangelist, Naumburg Cathedral, Germany
Artist: Naumburg Master
Date: ca. 1255
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: stone
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Title: The Kiss of Judas, on the choir screen, Naumburg Cathedral
Artist: Naumburg Master
Date: ca. 1255
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: stone
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Title: Ekkehard and Uta, Naumburg Cathedral
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1249-1255
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Medium: stone
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Title: Roettgen Pietà
Artist: n/a
Date: early 14th century
Source/ Museum: Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Medium: wood
Size: height 34 1/2" (87.6 cm)
Title: Plan. Cathedral of Santa María, León, Spain
Artist: n/a
Date: begun 1240s
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Title: Exterior, Cathedral of Santa María, León
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Title: Interior, Cathedral of Santa María, León
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Title: Jamb statue of Simeon, south portal of west facade, Cathedral of Santa María, León
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 1280-1300
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San Giovanni in Laterano (Rome), 1300's AD
Notre Dame de Paris (1100's-1200's AD)
Canterbury cathedral
• tympanum • Flat portion of the portal above the door and between the orders.
• portal • Ornamental architectural feature of a façade containing one or several doors.
• pier • Pillar dividing the portal in two and supporting the lintels.
• pier • Masonry pillar supporting the orders.
• splay • Recessed side of the portal that widens from its inside to its outside edge.
• lintel • Horizontal section of the door frame that fills the opening above a door or
portal.
• order • Each of the receding arches that form a vault over a portal.
• trefoil • Ornamental motif comprised of three lobes.
• gable • Triangular decorative element with molded edges, located above the portal.
• flying buttress • Masonry structure in the shape of a partial arch; it supports a wall by
transferring the pressure of the vaults onto an abutment.
• belfry • Small steeplelike ornament in the shape of a pyramid; it is found on the
corners of the transept or on each side of the façade.
• spire • Tapering part in the shape of a pyramid that surmounts the belfry.
• gallery • Covered passage along the cathedral’s façade, decorated with statues.
• stained glass • Translucent decorative work comprised of an assemblage of glass pieces,
usually colored, that fills a bay.
• tracery • Stone framework adorning the inside of a bay.
• rose window • Large circular bay composed of decorative tracery and stained glass; it is
also called a rosette.
• bell tower • Tower with bays in which the bells are hung.
• louver-board • Inclined slat located in the bell tower bay; it projects the sound of the bells
downward.
• nave • Area between the transept and the porch of the
cathedral where the congregation gathers.
• crossing • Area located at the crossing of the transept and the
nave of the cathedral.
• choir • Area just beyond the transept where the clergy
stand during the liturgy.
• apse • Vaulted or polygonal area forming the end of the
choir where the high altar is usually located.
• chevet • Semicircular area at the back of the cathedral that
includes the apse and the ambulatory.
• porch • Part of a cathedral’s façade where the doors open;
it can vary in depth.
• aisle • Lateral nave, usually separated from the main nave
by a row of columns.
• transept • Transverse area separating the choir from the nave
and forming the arms of a cross.
• ambulatory • Gallery that makes it possible to walk around the
cathedral’s choir, starting from the transept.
• apsidiole • Small lateral chapel arranged in a semicircle behind
the choir surrounding the apse.
• Lady chapel • Chapel located beyond the walls at the back of the
cathedral, in the axis of the nave.
Arches