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What was this land used for before the Chartres Cathedral was built?
What is the site of a pre-christian virgin goddess cult?
___ is an excellent example of the English Gothic Style
What is the Salisbury Cathedral?
_____ is an example of an Italian Gothic Structure.
What is the Church of St. Francis at Assisi?
What King commissioned the Sainte-Chapelle?
Who is King Louis IX
What characterized the German hall church?
What is an open, light-filled interior space with a nave and side aisles of equal height
This architectural innovation transfer the weight of the vaults and roves off of the thin walls and into the ground. This technique allowed for the windows in this period to nearly equal in heigh to the arches in the nave.
What is a Flying Buttress?
What relect was stored here and is thought to have given the cathedral its name Notre Dame
What is the linen believed to have been worn by Mary while giving birth to Jesus?
What on the interior of the Salisbury Cathedral reflects Norman building traditions?
What are heavy walls, tall arches in the nave, a gallery with a clerestory on top with simple lancet windows?
A collection of 250 Architectural drawings made in the 1220s and 1230s.
What is the Villard De Honnecourt Drawings?
The architectural techinque that allowed for stained glass windows to become very large in the Gothic Style
What is the plate tracery technique?
Why is Chartres Notre Dame significant to Gothic Architecture?
It is considered the best example of the early gothic style by many scholars. And it demonstrates the growing importance of the Virgin Mary to Christianity in this period.
What architectural feature distinguishes English Gothic cathedrals from those built in France?
What is less emphasis on height and more focus on broad naves and screen-like facades.