What is compositions are made from pieces of colored glass formed by mixing metallic oxides with molten glass or fusing colored glass with clear glass.
100
What is the earliest of high gothic architectural style in Chartres?
What is Nave
100
What happened at Chartres in 1194?
What is the resident clergy agreed to give up their stipends (salaries) for 3 years so that the rebuilding program could begin.
100
Where is the Chartres cathedral located?
What is the town of Chartres, about 40 miles south west of Paris
100
Why is Saint Denis the largest figure in his manuscript illumination?
What is it denotes his importance
200
What scene is depicted in Tympanum?
What is the representation of the second coming of Christ with the four apocalyptic symbols of the Evangelists
200
Name the 10 items in Reims Cathedral
What is Nave, Aisle, Crossing, Transept, choir, ambulatory, radiating chapels, buttresses, chevet, apse.
200
What years are the oldest surviving examples of early gothic sculptural style from?
What is 1145-1170
200
What do the west facade towers illustrate?
What is changing nature of gothic style
200
What was the effect of Guilds?
What is to ensure an adequate supply of trained workers and to enhance the status of craftsmen.
300
How was stained-glass used in the Gothic period?
What is stained-glass became an integral part of religious architecture and a more prominent artistic medium.
300
What are the main criteria for building Gothic cathedrals?
What is height and luminosity
300
What was built between 1211 and 1290?
What is the cathedral at Reims
300
What is the plan of Chartres Cathedral?
What is towers, Nave, side aisle, crossing, north transept, south transept, choir, chevet, radiating chapels, buttress, west facade, apse.
300
Who were most french cathedrals dedicated to?
What is The Virgin Mary
400
Why is the Royal Portal of the West Façade significant?
What is to represent old Testament king and queens
400
What are the differences between the arches of Reims and Chartres?
What is the proportions of the arches at Reims are taller and thinner than those at Chartres, the plan is also longer and thinner.
400
In what year did William the Conquer begin building the Saint-Etienne at Caen?
What is 1067
400
What does trivium and quadrivium mean in regards to liberal arts?
Trivium: grammar, rhetoric and dialectic
Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music
400
What was the largest economic enterprise of the Gothic era?
What is the construction of a cathedral
500
What are the differences between the sculptures decorating the left doorway of the entrance portal on the south transept of Chartres compared to those on the royal portal?
What is the sculptures of Chartres conform less strictly to their colonettes, their feet rest naturally on a horizontal plane, they're no longer strictly frontal,and they have facial expressions.
500
What is an architectural mirror of traditional christian juxtaposition?
What is the distinction between lower darkness referring to hell, and upper light referring to the heavenly city.
500
What year was the manuscript page from the Life of Saint Denis completed?
What is 1317
500
What does the Chartres cathedral say about gothic designers views of symmetry?
What is symmetry was not a requirement, cathedrals are structurally but not formally symmetrical
500
What did gothic artists integrate into cathedrals?