Gothic: England

1
Gothic England
Salisbury Cathedral, 12201330. Fig. 7-20.
2
Gothic England

• Example
• English regional variation
• Rectilinear forms
• Two transepts
• Short façade and vaults
• Single aisles
• Color contrasts

Salisbury Cathedral, 12201330. Fig. 7-20.
3
Gothic England
ROBERT and WILLIAM VERTUE, Westminster Abbey,
15031519. Fig. 7-22.
4
Gothic England

• Example
• English variation of Gothic style
• Fan vaults
• Pendants
• Perpendicular style
• Dissolves appearance of structural solidity

Westminster Abbey, 15031519. Fig. 7-22.
5
Gothic Holy Roman Empire

• Example
• Donor portraits secular theme in church
• Painted
• Individualized faces and personality
• Drapery reveals body beneath

Ekkehard and Uta, Naumburg Cathedral, ca.
12491255. Fig. 7-25.
6
Gothic Italy
CIMABUE, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and
Prophets, ca. 12801290. Fig. 7-28.
GIOTTO DI BONDONE, Madonna Enthroned, ca. 1310.
Fig. 7-29.
7
Gothic Italy

• Example
• Italian humanism
• Increasing interest in antiquity and study of
  Roman sculpture
• Growing naturalism of figures and spaces
• Cimabue Italo-Byzantine
• Giotto anticipates Renaissance

Left CIMABUE, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and
Prophets, ca. 12801290. Fig. 7-28. Right GIOTTO
DI BONDONE, Madonna Enthroned, ca. 1310. Fig.
7-29.
8
Gothic Italy
GIOTTO DI BONDONE, Lamentation, ca. 1305. Fig.
7-31.
9
Gothic Italy

• Example
• Fresco program in family chapel
• Naturalistic treatment of figures
• Drapery reveals body
• Emotional expression
• Shallow, illusionistic space for narrative

GIOTTO DI BONDONE, Lamentation, ca. 1305. Fig.
7-31.
10
Gothic Italy
DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, Virgin and Child Enthroned
with Saints, from 13081311. Fig. 7-32.
11
Gothic Italy

• Example
• Altarpiece
• Wood panels
• Civic pride
• Cult of the Virgin Mary
• Shifting from Italo-Byzantine to more
  naturalistic style

DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, Virgin and Child Enthroned
with Saints, from 13081311. Fig. 7-32.
12
Gothic Italy

• Example
• Regional variation of Gothic in Italy
• Civic project
• Campanile by Giotto
• Incrustation
• Compartmentalized clarity of architectural parts
• Anticipates Renaissance

ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO and others, Florence Cathedral,
begun 1296. Fig. 7-36.