5652395015 | Rottgen Pieta | Time: 1300 Location: Germany Detail: humanized version of Jesus and Mary Function: depict biblical figures more naturally, fascination with the suffering of Jesus and suffering of Mary | ![]() | 0 |
5652395016 | Chartres Cathedral | Time: 1100 Detail: royal portal, rose window, flying buttresses, pointed arches, four part ribbed vaults, commissioned by Thierry of Chartres Function: sacred space | ![]() | 1 |
5652395017 | Chartres Cathedral Nave | Time: 1100 Details: four part ribbed vaults, pointed arches, three stories (nave arcade, triforium, clerestory), three stories to make windows bigger Function: sacred space, lux nova | ![]() | 2 |
5652395018 | Chartres Cathedral Royal Portal | Time: 1100 Details: left tympanum: Ascension to Heaven (zodiacs on archivolts), central tympanum: Second Coming (gentler than Romanesque), right tympanum: Jesus on Mary's lap (Theotokos) Function: for illiterate worshippers | ![]() | 3 |
5652395019 | Chartres Cathedral Jamb Figures | Time: 1100 Details: royal ancestry of Jesus, new naturalism: vibrant colors, naturalized unmasked faces, attached to columns Function: display Biblical figures | ![]() | 4 |
5652395020 | Chartres Cathedral Rose Window | Time: 1200 Details: Mary as Theotokos in the center, royal motifs of castles and fleur de lis, four Old Testament ancestors of Jesus in the lancets Function: lux nova, display Mary as the centerpiece | ![]() | 5 |
5652395021 | Chartres Cathedral Mary and Child | Time: 1100 Details: Mary seated at a throne with Jesus on lap, crown, throne, and Holy Spirit signify royalty, angels surround her Function: lux nova, display Mary as centerpiece | ![]() | 6 |
5652395022 | Sainte Chappelle | Time: 1200 Details: Rayonnant style, slender, commissioned by Louis IX to house the crown of thorns and other artifacts of Jesus, fleur de lis on ceiling, pointed arches Function: reliquary | ![]() | 7 |
5652395023 | Blanche of Castille and Louis IX | Time: 1200 Details: Louis IX and his mother (Blanche of Castille), and two monks, dedication page Function: moralized Bible, illustrated page dedicated to Louis IX | ![]() | 8 |
5652395024 | Golden Haggadah | Time: 1300 Details: plagues of Egypt, scenes of liberation, Passover Function: education purposes, preparation for Passover | ![]() | 9 |
5652395025 | Lancets | tall, skinny windows | 10 | |
5652395026 | Pinnacles | sharply pointed ornaments, capping piers | 11 | |
5652395027 | Grisaille | monochrome painting done in neutral grays | 12 | |
5652395028 | Altarpiece | panel above and behind an altar | 13 | |
5652395029 | Punchwork | an openwork embroidery with patterns of holes | 14 | |
5652395030 | flying buttress | buttress slanting from a separate pier, done to decrease the weight of the wall and allow for large windows | 15 | |
5652395031 | Colonettes | thin column | 16 | |
5652395032 | Finials | crowning ornament | 17 | |
5652395033 | Trefoil | cloverlike ornament with stylized leaves in groups of three | 18 | |
5652395034 | Bar tracery | ornamental stonework for holding stained glass in place | 19 | |
5652395035 | predella | narrow ledge on which an altarpiece rests | 20 | |
5652395036 | retablo | frame enclosing decorated panels above an altar | 21 | |
5652395037 | rose window | a circular window with mullions or tracery radiating in a form suggestive of a rose | 22 | |
5652395038 | triforium | blind arcaded gallery below the clerestory | 23 | |
5652395039 | gabled | part of a wall that encloses the end of a pitched roof | 24 | |
5652395040 | quatrefoil | shape that has parts assuming the form of a cloverleaf | 25 | |
5652395041 | mullions | vertical member that divides a window from another | 26 |
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