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History Test 3 Study Guide
Key Terms/Buildings Chap 20
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
11/08/2011

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Boss
Definition
an ornamental knob or projection
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Cathedral
Definition
from cathedra = the bishop's throne in the apse behind the altar of a church
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Chapter house
Definition
a structure, usually circular in form, in which church business was discussed by the clergy
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Fan vault
Definition
vault form apparently originating in England in which the vault surface takes on the shape of a cone.
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Lady chapel
Definition
a chapel dedicated to the Virgin
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Pendent
Definition
a boss elongated so that it hangs down, as from a fan vault
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Pieta
Definition
a statue of the Virgin with the dead Christ
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Presbytery
Definition
from Presbyter = the priest in an Episcopal church, and hence referring to the east end of the choir containing the high altar and the area reserved for the clergy.
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Respond
Definition
half pier embedded into a wall to carry the end of an arch or vault rib
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Undercroft
Definition
a term used to refer to a vaulted room below a main room in an English church or chapel.
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Salisbury Cathedral
Definition
1220-1260 Spire erected in 1330 Tower and flying buttresses were erected in the 14th century. Screen facade does not correspond to the interior. Small entrance portals No rose window; instead there is a triple window. Emphasis is on the crossing tower. Plan is long & linear. Double transept characteristic of Cistercian churches. Pier colonettes do not ride up the wall to connect with vault ribs. Vault ribs rise from corbels in the triforium. This gives horizontal emphasis to interior space. Ribs are of contrasting color stone. Lady Chapel
(dedicated to the Virgin Mary) Supported by slender piers composed of extremely slender marble shafts. Chapter house interior wall and vaulting.
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Gloucester Cathedral
Definition
1089-1121 Vault ribs have multiplied into a dense thicket but have no structural purpose. It is a continuous barrel vault with applied ribs. Flat East end with enormous window. divided into horizontal tiers of windows of like shape and proportion.
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Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey
Definition
(1500-1520) Culmination of the English perpendicular style. Fan vaults with pendentives. This is called Tudor Style or Perpendicular Style, the former after the line of English kings which began with Henry VII in 1485. Vaults are van vaults with pendentives. (Note: do not confuse these pendentives with those which support a dome.)
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Canterbury Cathedral
Definition
1071-1503 Cathedral has a harmonic facade. Here the ambulatory is called a Corona. Architect: William of Sens
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Wells Cathedral
Definition
Cathedral 1175 1435 : "Strainer arches" built at later date to stabilize tower
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Cologne Cathedral
Definition
13th & 14th centuries 150 foot high choir. Begun in 1248, stood with only chevet, transept, and lower parts of facade towers completed for some five centuries. Completed only when the original designs were found in the 19th century. Survived bombing in WW 2, only windows broken.
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Strasbourg Cathedral
Definition
, France, c. 1250 Sculptured tympanum representing death of the Virgin Mary. Surrounded by the 12 apostles. In center, Christ receives her soul--the doll like figure on his left arm. Mary Magdalene wringing her hands in grief, crouches beside the death bed.Emotion expressed, scene represented as a human event
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Naumburg Cathedral
Definition
Sculpture of Ekkehard and Uta: persons of the nobility who in former times had been patrons of the "Church.
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Pieta: Virgin with the Dead Christ
Definition
c. 1325, painted wood 34" high, Rheinisches Landemuseum, Bonn
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St. Stephans, Vienna
Definition
1305-1440 Tympanum is Christ in a mandorla flanked by angels.
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Ulm Cathedral
Definition
Ulm tower is 530 feet tall--the highest gothic tower built
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Marienkirche, Halle on the Saale near Brussels
Definition
Unique flying ribs free standing from the vault surfaces. They have no structural function.
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Heiligkreuzkirche: Schwabish Gemund vault plan
Definition
Heiligkreuzkirche: Schwabish Gemund vault plan
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Heiligkreuzkirche: Schwabish Gemund vault plan
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Prismatic cellular vaults
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House 1550 Marktstrasse, Slavonice Czechoslovakia
Definition
Elaborate tear-drop shaped prismatic vault Bishop's Castle Worzen Saxony, C.1500: Prismatic vaults descending near floor on both sides of a stove.
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Cloister Vault, Jagellon University, Krakow, Poland
Definition
Here the vault has been broken so you can see that it is made of brick covered with plaster.
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Florence Cathedral
Definition
1296-1436 Begun by Arnolfo di Cambio. Surfaces ornamented in the old Tuscan fashion-- marble inlay to match the 11th century Romanesque Baptestry of San Giovanni. Nave covered with rib vaults. In plan the nave seems to have been added to the crossing complex as an afterthought. Actually, it was built first. Dome by Filippo Brunelleschi 1420-1436 (Considered start of Renaissance architecture). (The crossing had to be
rebuilt to bear load the dome, because no clear concept for the dome had been developed when the plans were drawn.) Campanile by Giotto di Bondone (1334). Facade not completed until the 19th century. Facades thought of as screens that could be added at any time.
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Milan Cathedral
Definition
begun 1386: Consulted experts from France, Germany, and England. Facade begun 1616 completed 1805-1813. Proportions were Italian, ornament, Gothic. But facade is mixture of Gothic and Classic elements. Section is designed "ad triangulum".
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