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GOTHIC ARTLorena Gonz

Alejandro CaPaulina VivaSebastin A

Ashley BeceCristbal Sa

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ORIGIN

The Gothic art was developed in France, about the twelfth century awas expanded to all Europe, also in Italy are classical influences tstrong.

Gothic art maintained its popularity until de sixteenth century when ito wane as Renaissance.

The hallmarks of Gothic art include such forms as sculpture, painti

panels), and stained glass. Fresco was also an important media forartists.

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The Gothic period was also famous for its artistic and archinnovations such as the flying buttress and pointed arch which builders to construct taller cathedrals with bigger spaces for glamaking these structures appear lighter than previous ones. Someexamples of Gothic art include the fifteenth-century altar-piece of St.Church in Krakow, Ulmer MunstersGarden of Gethsemane. Some imGothic artists include Fra Angelico, Simone Martini, Bonaventura Berli

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SCULPTURE

Gothic sculpture was closely tied to architecture, since it was used pto decorate the exteriors of cathedrals and other religious buildingearliest Gothic sculptures were stone figures of saints and the Holyused to decorate the doorways, or portals, of cathedrals in Franelsewhere.

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The largest and most important of the figures are the over-life-size stathe embrasures on either side of the doorways. Because they are ato the colonnettes by which they are supported, they are known ascolumns.

The earliest surviving statue-columns are those of the west poChartres that stem from the older pre-Gothic cathedral and that daabout 1155. The tall, cylindrical figures repeat the form of the colonnwhich they are bound

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VITRALS

The colors used to illustrate the windows played an important rolerepresentation of harmonious atmosphere. Not only that, they shinown through the windows that allow the light of the sun , or Gosymbolized into the church and enlighten the hearts of the faithful. ThDame cathedral of Paris use an effect of large windows to fill the vahence its unique shape, to the ceiling to allow illuminating colorcreating a warm atmosphere.

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To Christians at the beginning of the second millenium, stainedwindows provided visual lessons to explain the Church festivals, thChrist, the importance of the Virgin Mary, the prophets, saints, martyother Christian themes.

They inspired a sense of devotion and faith, and Sugershope was thwindow would illumine mens minds so they may travel through apprehension of Godslight.

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ARCHITECTURE

The original Gothic style was actually developed to bring sunshpeople`s lives, and especially into their churches.

The most fundamental element of the Gothic style architecture is the arch, which was likely borrowed from Islamic.

The slender columns and lighter systes of thrust allowed for larger Wmore light.

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The history of Gothic architecture and the changing styles of buildcharacterized by the introduction of stained- glass Windows, gaflying buttresses, tall spires and pointed arches.

3 different tyes of English Architecture.o Early English Gothic Style 1200 to 1300

o Decorated Gothic Styke 1300 to 1400

o Perpendicular Gothic Style 1400 to 1500

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LITERATURE

The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Wwhose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elemeconstitute the genre.

Literature of the supernatural often uses recurring themes, imagesymbols to envision the human condition.

Always mixture good and evil powers that cannot be understand com

by human reasons.

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Gothic elements include the following:

1. Setting in a castle: Secret passages or doors, rooms, creatures, monsters, vampires, wolfmen, zom

2. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense: Something of unknown precedence happens.

3. An ancient prophecy: Connected with the castle or the habitants.

4. Omens, portents, visions: A character has a disturbing dream or vision.

5. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events: Dramatic events.

6. High, even overwrought emotion: Sentimental, surprise, especially horror and terror.

7. Women in distress: Somethimg happened to a woman, an oppressed heroine.

8. Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male: Powerful male characters want that gsometimes she doesnt and they try to force her.

9. The metonymy of gloom and horror: There are a type of metaphor Doom and gloomKilland die

10. The vocabulary of the gothic: Using the right words like synonyms (Mistery, diabolical, fear, terror, e

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PAINTINGS

Gothic painters made their Gothic paintings in frescos, panel pamanuscript illumination and stained glass.

At that time in Europe the painting wasnt a major public art foTapestry was still popular as a decorative wall covering. They stoppetheir paintings on walls and started to make them over wood, altarand triptychs

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The paintings were separated on: diptych (2-part works), triptychworks) and polyptych (multi-part), and manuscript. To bring the ptogether, they used egg or glue extracted from animal bones. To bringcolors, they used oil. Its lines were hard traced, had intensity of colorwas easy to understand. Its main subject were religious, portraitsportrait and customs.

The Gothic book illustration had illuminated manuscripts that were fon various monasteries from the beginning of the 13th century sBooks of Hours, Missals, Apocalypses, Psalters, and Bibles.