Spanish Cathedrals
The largest gothic cathedral in the world is in ?
Seville, Spain.
Gothic architecture emerged in what century ?
Mid 12th Century
Cathedrals were characterized by what type of windows ?
Stained glass windows
The cathedral of Ávila is both a ..... and a .........?
Both a church and a fortress
What is France
True or false:
Gothic Cathedrals has fresco paintings
False
What is a flying buttress ?
An outside support for the walls/vaults of cathedral
What are the three components of Gothic Architecture ?
What is a Pointed Arch, Ribbed Vault, and Flying Buttress
Paintings on the walls of the Gothic cathedrals were called ?
Altarpieces
What are characteristics of gothic sculpture ?
Lifelike/Realistic, Life-Sized, Detailed...
Churches and Cathedrals seem to reach to the sky and are built high for what reason?
To be closer to God
Ribbed vaults allowed gothic cathedrals to be ___________ than romanesque cathedrals.
Higher / taller
True or False ?
The fresco paintings in gothic cathedrals were very detailed and large
False.
They did not have fresco paintings
The pinnacles crowning flying buttresses outside support the pressure of which architectural structure ?
The pressure of the Ribbed Vaults.
A romanesque cathedral has ___________ arch, whereas a gothic cathedral has a ___________ arch.
rounded , pointed