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Gothic Art: Styles and Features

Gothic art began in Paris, France in the middle of the 12th century and spread throughout Europe until the 1500s. It is characterized by pointed arches in architecture and naturalism in painting and sculpture. Gothic paintings emphasized flowing lines and refined decoration, often using gold backgrounds. Sculptures became more natural-looking in the 12th-13th centuries. Gothic architecture featured rib vaults, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and stained glass windows, enabling cathedrals to become taller with thinner walls.

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Gothic Art: Styles and Features

Gothic art began in Paris, France in the middle of the 12th century and spread throughout Europe until the 1500s. It is characterized by pointed arches in architecture and naturalism in painting and sculpture. Gothic paintings emphasized flowing lines and refined decoration, often using gold backgrounds. Sculptures became more natural-looking in the 12th-13th centuries. Gothic architecture featured rib vaults, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and stained glass windows, enabling cathedrals to become taller with thinner walls.

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Gothic

art
A PRESENTATION OF
GROUP 3
Gothic art is a style of
painting, architecture, and
sculpture that began in Paris,
France the middle of the What is gothic art
12th century and showed up
throughout Europe all the
way into the 1500s. The
architectural style’s
definitive feature is the
pointed arch, while the
definitive feature of Gothic
painting and sculpture is
naturalism.
GOTHIC ART:
PAINTING combination of
:

the religious and


the grotesque
Europe was trying to put the memory of the “dark ages” behind it
and move on to a more beautiful, radiant era, full of confidence,
abundance and prosperity.
 Paintings was usually done on small areas until it began to be used
in decorating the ornamental panel behind an altar in the cathedral .
 These paintings display an emphasis on flowing curving lines,
details, and refined decoration, thus, gold was often applied to the
panel as background color.

painting
GOTHIC ART:
SCULPTURE
-Was used primarily to decorate the exteriors of
cathedrals and other religious building
The earliest gothic sculptures were stone figures of
saints and the Holy Family.
During the 12th and early 13th centuries sculptures
become more relax and natural looking.

sculpture
Shrine of Three Kings

(Cologne Cathedral)
The Gero-Kreuz
(Cologne
Cathedral)
​
Fontanna Maggiore,
Perugia
GOTHIC ART: ARCHITECTURE

:Christian church architecture


:rib vault, flying buttresses and pointed arch
:stained-glass window panels
Main works of art: cathedrals, but also civil
buildings, such as palace, town halls,
markets….
Gothic cathedrals have pointed arches and
large windows
Before churches had wood roofs, Gothic style
had stone roofs.
architecture
Abbey of
Saint-Denis
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Tomb of
Dagobert
Click icon to add picture :improved during the 13th century

:Basilica of Saint Denis


Gothic stained glass

 Churches became taller and lighter, walls


thinned and stained glass was used to fill the
increasingly larger openings in them.
 Stained glass windows are often viewed as
translucent pictures.
 Gothic stained glass windows are complex
mosaic of bits of colored glass joined with lead
into an intricate pattern illustrating biblical
stories and saints lives.
ROSE WINDOW,
SAINT DENIS’
CHURCH, fRANCE

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