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lifting the mind from material to spiritual

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GOTHIC

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COMPONENTIAL STRUCTURAL SPATIAL HISTORICAL & ICONOGRAPHY PHYSICAL CIRCUMSTANCES

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OPERE FRANCIGENO

VERTICALITY LIGHT NESS NARRITIVE POETRY AWE

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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

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SAINT DENIS CATHEDRAL

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SAINT DENIS CATHEDRAL, PLAN

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NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL

an edifice resembling an up-turned boat with its eastwardpointing rounded prow seeming to cleave the waters of the river Seine and its flat west end facing the Ile de la Cit.

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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris (1163-1250)

Cathedral of Chartres (1194-1260)

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Cathedral of Chartres
It was a Romanesque church rebuilt in 1200 after a fire in 1194 and was completed by 1221. Served as a model for the Great Cathedrals both in and outside France.

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 Double ambulatory The bay is tripartite in the earliest form : arcade, triforium gallery and clerestory

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CLASSICAL GOTHIC

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Principal vault rises upto 125 feet. 166 stained glass windows on biblical narratives.

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CLASSICAL GOTHIC

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Cathedral of Chartres

Cathedral of Reims

Cathedral of Amiens

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Cathedral of Chartres

Cathedral of Reims

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Cathedral of Chartres

Cathedral of Reims

Cathedral of Amiens

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Cathedral of Chartres

Cathedral of Reims

Cathedral of Amiens

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Cathedral of Reims

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outside, the flying buttresses and abutments double strutted from pier to wall in the nave, with an additional double strutted row in the choir.

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Cathedral of Amiens
Plan resembles to Reims, except the choir is more fully developed and the axial chapel dedicated to Virgin is longer.

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Quadruple windows under three rose windows. Principal vault rises upto 138 feet

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Double flying buttresses were more slender and inclined at a greater angle. They have acquired a new functionality : they carry water channels for water drainage.

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Late Gothic: Rayonnant (From about 1230)

Cathdrale de Strasbourg, (12451275)

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Cathdrale de Strasbourg, (1245-75) LATE GOTHIC

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Clermont Ferrand Cathedral, Normandy (1270)

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Late Gothic: English Decorated (From about 1275-1380)

York Minster,1338 LATE GOTHIC

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York Minster,1338

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York Minster,1338

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Lichfield Cathedral,1195-1340

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Lichfield Cathedral,1195-1340

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Late Gothic: English Perpendicular Gothic (From about 1360-1520)

Gloucester Catherdral, 1499 LATE GOTHIC

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Gloucester Catherdral, 1499 LATE GOTHIC

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Late Gothic: Flamboyant (From about 1350-16th Century)

Church of Trinity, 1506 LATE GOTHIC

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Church of St. Maclou, started 1432 Normandy, France LATE GOTHIC

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Royal Monastery of Brou (1506-32) Bourg-en-Bresse, France LATE GOTHIC

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Royal Monastery of Brou (1506-32) Bourg-en-Bresse, France LATE GOTHIC

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Royal Monastery of Brou (1506-32) Bourg-en-Bresse, France LATE GOTHIC

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Gothic Revival: From late 1740s

Saint Clotilde Basilica, Paris (1857) LATE GOTHIC

Palace of Westminster, London (1840-70)

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Scott Monument Edinburgh, Paris (1840) LATE GOTHIC

University of Glasgow, Scotland (1840-70)

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Gothic Architecture In India

High Court,Bombay (1862) GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

VT Station, Bombay (1887)

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