AP Art History Chapter 18 – The Age of Great Cathedrals: Gothic Art Chronology: 1140 - 1500 Early Gothic: 1140-1193 Peter Abelard: 1079-1142 Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis: 1122-1151 King Louis VII of France: r. 1137-1180 Second Crusade: 1147-1149 Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor: r. 1152-1190 Chretien de Troyes, 1160-1190 King Philip Augustus of France: r. 1180-1223 Saint Francis of Assisi: 1182-1226 Royal Portal, Chartres Cathedral ca. 1145-1155 Chronology continued… High Gothic: 1194-1299 University of Paris Founded: ca. 1200 Dante Aligheri: 1265-1321 Capture of Constantinople by Latins Marco Polo in China: 1271-1292 - Fourth Crusade: 1204 Romance of the Rose, Part II King John of England signs Magna Carta: 1215 - ca. 1275-1280 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor: r. 1220-1250 King Philippe Le Bel of France: Romance of the Rose, Part I: ca. 1225-1235 - r. 1285-1314 Saint Thomas Aquinas: 1225-1274 Pope Boniface VIII canonizes King Louis IX (Saint Louis) of France: r. 1226-1270 Louis IX: 1297 Blanche of Castile, Regent of France: 1226-1234 Treaty of Paris between Louis IX and Henry III of England: 1259 Byzantines retake Constantinople: 1261 Amiens Cathedral - Begun 1120 Chronology continued… Chapel of Henry VII Late Gothic: 1300-1500: King Edward II of England: r. 1307-1327 King Charles IV of France: r. 1322-1328 Hundred Years’ War between France and England: 1337-1453 Geoffrey Chaucer: ca. 1343-1400 Black Death first sweeps over Europe: 1347-1350 Great Schism: 1378-1417 Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks: 1453 King Henry VII of England: r. 1471-1509 1503-1519 Europe about 1200 2 views of ambulatory and radiating chapels, abbey church, Saint-Denis, France 1140-1144 Plan of the east end, abbey church, Saint-Denis Vaults of the ambulatory and radiating chapels of the choir abbey church, Saint-Denis Chartres Cathedral Chartres, France begun 1134, rebuilt after 1194 Royal Portal West façade, Chartres Cathedral Chartres, France ca. 1145-1155 Old Testament jamb statues, central doorway of Royal Portal Chartres Cathedral West façade of Laon Cathedral, Laon France begun ca. 1190 Interior views of Laon Cathedral 30’ Laon Paris Chartres Amiens Elevations of Naves of 4 French Gothic Cathedrals Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, France begun 1163 – remodeled after 1225 Alternate views of Notre Dame Cathedral Chartres Cathedral (nave and plan) detail Virgin and Child and angels (Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere) Chartres Cathedral – ca. 1170 Rose window and lancets north transept, Chartres Cathedral Chartres, France ca. 1220 Saints Martin, Jerome and Gregory, jamb statues, Porch of the Confessors, Chartres Cathedral ca. 1220-1230 Saints Theodore, Stephen and Clement Chartres Cathedral Interior views of Amiens Cathedral, Amiens France begun 1220 West façade of Amiens Cathedral Christ (Beau Dieu), trumeau statue of central doorway, west façade West façade of Reims Cathedral, Reims, France ca. 1225-1290 Visitation, jamb statues of central doorway, west façade, Reims, Cathedral ca. 1230 Interior of the upper chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, France 1243-1248 Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris), Notre-Dame, Paris, France early 14th century West façade of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, France ca. 1500-1514 Aerial view of the fortified town of Carcassone, France 12th – 13th centuries Hall of the cloth guild, Bruges, Netherlands begun 1230 House of Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France 1443-1451 Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux, from the abbey church of Saint-Denis silver gilt and enamel 1339 Blanche of Castile, Louis IX, and two monks, dedication page of a moralized Bible Abraham and the three angels, Psalter of Saint Louis Paris, France 1253-1270 Master Honore, David anointed by Samuel and Battle of David and Goliath, The Breviary of Philippe le Bel, Paris, France 1296 Jean Pucelle, David before Saul, Belleville Breviary, Paris, France Ca. 1325 Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, England begun 1220 Plan Plan for Cathedral Additional views of the Salisbury Cathedral detail of ceiling Interior of Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England 1332-1357 Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey, London, England 1503-1519 Tomb of Edward II Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England ca. 1330-1335 Aerial view of Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany begun 1248 Choir of Cologne Cathedral completed 1322 Interior of Saint Elizabeth, Malburg, Germny 1235-1283 Death of the Virgin, tympanum of left doorway, south transept, Strasbourg Cathedral, Strasbourg, France ca. 1230 Ekkehard and Uta, statues in the west choir, Naumburg Cathedral, Naumburg, Germany ca. 1249-1255 Equestrian portrait (Bamberg Rider) Bamberg Cathedral ca. 1235-1240 Virgin with the Dead Christ, (Rottgen Pieta) Rhineland, Germany ca. 1300-1325 detail The Klosterneuburg Altar, from the abbey church at Klosterneuburg, Austria 1181 Sacrifice of Isaac Shrine of the Three Kings from the Cologne Cathedral ca. 1190 West façade of Orvieto Cathedral Orvieto, Italy begun 1310 Doge’s Palace, Venice, Italy begun ca. 1340-1345 Milan Cathedral Milan, Italy begun 1386 Comparison Section What are the major changes in Medieval architectural sculpture in relation to its structural setting as seen in St. Sernin at Toulouse (Fig. 17-21), the Royal Portal (Fig. 18-5), and Porch of the Confessors (Fig. 18-15)? (Fig. 18-5) (Fig. 18-15) (Fig. 17-21) What are the major changes in Medieval architectural sculpture in relation to its structural setting as seen in St. Pierre at Moissac (Fig. 17-23), Saint Theodore at Chartres (Fig. 18-16), and the Visitation figures from Reims Cathedral (Fig. 18-22)? (Fig. 17-23) (Fig. 18-22) (Fig. 18-16)