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100
What are Compound Piers?
Large columnar supports on either side of the nave to which clusters of colonnettes are attached
100
What did Saint Theodore have that was weighed down on his left side on the door jamb statue?
A sword
100
When were the door jamb statues worked on and completed?
1145-70
100
What is the best example of Early Gothic style in England?
Salisbury Cathedral
100
What were the three grades of membership for Guilds?
Masters, Journeymen, and Apprentices
200
What is a characteristic and essential feature of Gothic Architecture?
Pointed Arches
200
What represented Luke on the Tympanum on the Charles Cathedral?
A bull
200
When did the canons or resident clergy agree to give up their salaries for three years so that the rebuilding program of the cathedral in Chartres could begin?
1194
200
Who were most great French cathedrals dedicated to?
"Notre Dame" or "Our Lady", the Virgin
200
What does the abbreviated cathedral entrance over Saint Denis' head in The Life of Saint Denis emphasize?
His position as archbishop of France and his association with the Heavenly City
300
Due to the weight-bearing capacity of the ribs, the vaults surface was made with what kind of material?
Lighter material
300
Where is the beginning and end of Christ's life located on the Royal Portal of Charles?
Placed over the right and left doors, respectively
300
When did French architects build over 80 Gothic Cathedrals?
From the 1230s to 1250
300
What does the Cologne Cathedral exemplify?
The late Gothic taste for ornate tracery on the spires, slender vertical thrusts, and animated surfaces that overwhelm the portals
300
What were the pieces of fried glass in stained glass windows joined by?
Strips of lead
400
What did Suger retain the basic elements of?
The Romanesque pilgrimage choir
400
Give two features of the Old Testament kings and Queens on the Royal Portal?
Frontal, arms are contained within their vertical planes, their halos are flat, feet slant downward on a diagonal, drapery folds reveal the artist's delight in surface pattern
400
When was Abbot Suger born?
1081
400
What did the Guilds donate to the Chartres Cathedral?
Windows illustrating their professional activities
400
Who commissioned the Reliquary Chapel of Saint Chapelle?
King Louis IX
500
What did Suger's chevet emphasize?
The integration of light with lightness, because the entire area was covered with rib vaults supported by pointed arches
500
On the tympanum on the Royal Portal who was in the middle surrounded by an oval mandorla and the four apocalyptic symbols of the evangelists?
Jesus Christ
500
When did the building of Colonge begin?
1248
500
What did the Cologne Cathedral use to create a horizontal alinement that leads the views gaze towards the apse?
Statues on piers
500
In what Cathedral is the Shrine of the Three Kings located?
Cologne Cathedral