Gothic art developed in France in the 12th century and spread across Western Europe. Key characteristics included more animated figures in paintings, the development of interior and exterior perspective, and elongated, expressive sculptures. Important works included the South Rose Window at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the sculptures on Chartres Cathedral's western portal. Gothic architecture featured vertical shafts, clustered columns, and larger windows to lighten interiors, exemplified by buildings like the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Notre Dame Cathedral.
2. GOTHIC ART
12th century until late 16th century)
• The term originated with the Gothic
architecture which developed in France from
about 1137 with the rebuilding of the Abbey
Church of St. Denis.
• It spread to all of Western Europe never quite
effacing more classical styles in Italy.
• Gothic Period included sculpture, panel
painting, stained glass, fresco and illuminated
manuscripts.
3. Important Works of Art
PAINTINGS
Characteristics:
• Figures become more animated in
pose and facial expression, tend to be
smaller in relation to the background
of scenes, and are arranged more
freely in the pictorial space, where
there is room.
4. • The development
of Italian Gothic
perspective in two
main forms
• Interior
perspective
providing depth to
an enclosed space.
• Exterior
perspective with a
well established
foreground,
midground and
background.
THE BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN
( PIETRO LORENZETTI )
5. • The South
Rose Window
was a gift
from the king
Saint Louis.
• A central
element that
thrones over
the transept
facade, as
counterpoint
to the North
Rose Window.
SOUTH ROSE WINDOW
Designed By: Jean de Chelles
and Pierre de Montreuil
6. SCULPTURES
Characteristics:
• Show an elegant but exaggerated
columnar elongation.
• With a fashion for very large wooden
sculpted altarpieces with increasingly
virtuoso carving and large numbers
agitated expressive figures.
7. . An ivory sculpture
probably created in
the 1260s, currently
in the possession of
the Louvre Museum
in Paris.
• The most beautiful
piece of ronde-boss
ivory carving ever
made. and the finest
individual work of art
in the wave of ivory
sculpture.
THE VIRGIN AND THE CHILD
( By: ANON)
8. THE WESTERN (ROYAL) PORTAL
AT CHARTRES CATHEDRAL
•The earliest
Gothic
sculptures
and were a
revolution in
style and the
model for a
generation of
sculptors.
9. ARCHITECTURE
Characteristics:
• Vertical shafts, clustered columns,
compound piers, plate tracery and groups
of narrow openings had evolved during
the Romanesque period.
• Interiors had become lighter with the
insertion of more and larger windows.
10. • Known as the
Cathedral Basilica
of Saint Denis, is a
large medieval
abbey church in
the commune of
Saint-Denis, now
a northern
suburb of Paris. THE ABBEY CHURCH OF SAINT DENIS
By: William of Sens
11. NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL
By: (Peter of Montereau,
Jean de chelles, Jean Lassus)
• A historic
Catholic cathedral
on the eastern
half of the Île de
la Cité in the
fourth
arrondissement
of Paris,
France. Also
known as (Notre
Dame Cathedral).
12. INSIGHTS
Gothic Art are kind of art that brings color and beauty to the
society. When I was young, I didn't gave any value to an arts,
because for me it is just a simple and a useless thing in life. It
made me realized how important the work of an art is. In
everywhere I go, I found a work of an art and I didn't appreciate
it. But now, I know that every work of an art is precious and
valuable. I know how to appreciate art this time, because I knew
even me doesn't know how to draw. Even just a simple drawing I
cannot do it, so how much more when it comes to paintings,
sculptures, and architectures? What an amazing things to think
about, how gifted and talented those people who made it. And
because of that awareness, this time every time I saw an art I will
stare on it, appreciate it, and imagine how beautiful the art is, and
how beautiful the world is, because of an art.
By: Gelyn U. Llamido
