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Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England, 12-15th century
Typical of the early 14th century, makes use of the Ogee arch (double curves, shaped somewhat like an S) to create net patterns.
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Reticulated Tracery
Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England, 12-15th century
Typical of the early 14th century, makes use of the Ogee arch (double curves, shaped somewhat like an S) to create net patterns.
Panel Tracery
St Mary's Church, Nottingham, England, 14-15th century
Transoms added horizontally to create even panel divisions. Featuring heavily in the perpendicular Gothic period.
Geometric Tracery
Notre Dame de Paris, France, 12-14th century
The rib-work creates equal divisions for glass panelling, chiefly foiled, and circles, typical of this style, used in the high end of the window
Tracery
The term 'Tracery' refers to the stone element used to hold glass in Gothic windows.
Plate Tracery The earliest form of Tracery, 12th century, is the process of cutting shapes through solid masonry.
Bar Tracery Introduced in the middle of the 13th century, Bar Tracery has patterns involving intersecting rib-work built up from the mullions. Other types include;
Curvilinear Tracery 14th Century style includes the uninterruption of flowing curves.
Geometrical Tracery Typical of the late 13th early 14th century, simple shapes like circles used in the high end of the window and the lancets.
Intersecting Tracery Typical of the 13th century, formed by interlocking mullions each branching off into two curved bars of the same radius but from different centres.
Loop Tracery Typical of the early 15th century, the form involved large uncusped loops.
Panel Tracery Transoms added horizontally to create even panel divisions.
Reticulated Tracery Typical of the early 14th century, makes use of the Ogee arch (double curves, shaped somewhat like an S) to create net patterns.
Y-Tracery Typical of the 13th century, the rib work branches off in to a Y shape.
Blind and Open Tracery As Bar Tracery opened the way for more complex patterns, Masons started to apply these patterns to things other than window openings, when used on solid walls, Blind Tracery can be used as openwork screens either matching existing window tracery of creating a visual counterpoint, featuring heavily in Rayonnant Gothic.
Islamic influence
The multilobed arches and complex compound arches found atop the columns in the Tracery is an example of architectural influence from Islamic forms in developing the Gothic Tracery. Mosques and fortresses were converted into Churches and Christian castles as the Recoquista spread through Spain, and its this pattern of conversion that led to the incorporation of Islamic elements to Gothic Christian Architecture.
Venetian Gothic
Doge's Palace,Venice, 14-15th century
Residence of the Doge of Venice, a lightness is portrayed through the decorative and elegant traceries.
Venetian Gothic
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, 13-14th century
Rich Venetian Gothic style to neighbouring buildings shown through the decorative traceries.
Venetian Gothic
The Venetian Gothic style originated in Venice in the 14th century, integrated with Byzantine styles from Constantinople. The style used Gothic lancet arch with Byzantine and Moorish architecture influences.
At a time when the Upper Class were funding new churches and houses for themselves, monks were bringing with them the Gothic style to Venice churches from mainland Italy.
Unique characteristics to the Venetian Gothic style, compared to other European cities was a desire for lightness and grace in a structure, Venice land proved valuable due to vast canals running through the city and so weight and size of structures were never more than what was needed.
Traceries in Venetian Gothic were constructed to support the whole weight of the building alluding to the extreme weightlessness of the building as a whole, where as in Northern Gothic construction they were only made to support stained glass.
During the 14-15th centuries the proportion in the central hall became a major aspect of the Venetian Gothic. The hall know as the Portego, evolved into a long passageway often opened by a loggia of Gothic arches.
Corinthian order
The Louvre Palace, 12th - 20th century
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Flying Buttress
Notre Dame de Paris, France, 12-14th century
Double arched flyers introduced around the apse to support the lateral force of the vault and wind loading from the roof.
Flying Buttress
Notre Dame de Paris, France, 12-14th century
One of the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress, not originally to be included around the nave and choir but after stress fracturing through the thin walls, popularised by the gothic style, supports had to be put in place.
Flying Buttress
Even though the Flying Buttress made its presence in the Gothic period, their precursors can be found in the Byzantine empire and Romanesque buildings.
The purpose of buttressing is to resist the outward pushing wall caused by vaults and wind loading on roofs, The characteristics of the flying buttress is that the buttress is not in contact with the wall all the way to the ground, transmitting lateral forces across an intervening space.
The two components making up the system include the 'buttress' a large masonry block on the outside of the building and the 'flyer' an arch bridging the gap between the buttress and the wall.
The introduction of buttressing and more specifically the flying buttress meant that walls didn't have to be so massive to resist lateral forces, instead the wall surface could be reduced and filled with larger stained glass windows.
Two arches 'flyers' were often found on Gothic churches, one set just below the springing point of the internal vault and the upper one to resist the effect of wind loading on the roof. Gothic buildings later embellished the flying buttresses with crockets and figural sculptures set into the niches of the buttress and atop the flyers.
Lierne vault
York Minster, England 13-15th century
The center of the cruciform plan
Fan vault
Gloucester Cathedral, England 11-15th century
The earliest example of Fan vaulting in the cloisters of the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity
Ribbed vault
Chapter House - York Minster, England, 13-15th century
The second largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe
Gothic Vault
Ribbed vault
The intersection of two or three Barrel vaults, appeared in the 11th century integrated into Gothic architecture demonstrating the grandeur of new ideas superseding the Groin vault.
Sexpartite vault
Described as a Ribbed vault with an additional transverse rib through the central boss creating a bay division of 6.
Fan vault
The ribs that make up the Fan vault are of equal length and equidistantly apart, in a manner resembling a fan. The earliest example developed in 14th century England, seen in Gloucester Cathedral.
Lierne vault
A Lierne in Gothic rib vaulting is a tertiary rib spanning between two other ribs, instead of from a springer or to a central boss. Lierne or stellar vault as its also known refers to the star shape generated.
Gothic Scholasticism
Chartres Cathedral, France 12th - 13th century
External buttressing and the use of a three-part elevation allowed for vast dense stained glass panels making it a distinctive feature to this cathedral.