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 Introduction Benedetto Antelami Taddeo Gaddi Vitale da Bologna
 Architecture in France Giovanni di Balduccio Giotto di Bondone Guariento d'Arpo
 Architecture in Germany Jacobello Dalle Masegne Pietro Lorenzetti Giusto de' Menabuoi
 Architecture in Italy Corenzo Maitani Ambrogio Lorenzetti Barnaba da Modena
 Architecture in England Andrea da Firenze Giovanni da Milano Melchior Broederlam
 Stained Glass Filippo Rusiti Gentile da Fabriano Nicolas de Bataille
 Arnolfo di Cambio Ferrer Bassa Pucelle Jean Bayeux Tapestry
 Nicola Pisano Pietro Cavallini Altichiera da Zevio Matthew Paris
 Giovanni Pisano Cimabue Tomasso da Modena Master Boucicaut
 Tino di Camaino Duccio di Buonisegna Traini Francesco Illuminated Manuscripts
 Andrea Pisano Simone Martini Giovannino de' Grassi Master Hohenfurt
 Claus Sluter Maso di Banco Roberto Oderisi Henri Belechose
 
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ARCHITECTURE
 


Architecture in France


 


The Gothic Cathedrals
 

 






Amiens Notre Dame

France
begun 1220

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220

 

 
 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220

 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220


Amiens Notre Dame

Cathedral Amiens is the largest and most Classical of French cathedrals in Gothc era.
The height of the ceiling is about 42.3m (about 37m at Cathedral Chartres, about 38m at Cathedral Reims) and the width of the nave is about 14.6m. The Cathedral Amien was built in 1152 with the Romanesque style and burnt in 1218 by lightnings. The reconstruction was started in about 1220 and the nave was completed in about 1245. The choir was started to reconstruct in about 1238 and completed befor 1269 and the most of part including transept was completed in 1288. The south tower was constructed in about 1366, the north tower was done in about 1401.
 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220
 

 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220

 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220
   
 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220
   
 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220
   
 

Amiens Notre Dame, France, begun 1220
   
   
   


Cathedral Saint-Etienne,

Bourges
Begun  mid 1190s
 

 


Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges, used to call Cathedral of Bourges, is located about 200km south of Paris.Cathedral of Bourges is, together with Cathedral Chartres, the first cathedral of high-gothic era.Cathedral of Bourges had peculiar style in contrast with Cathedral of Chartres which became a starting point of the typical French Gothic style. The construction begun in 1195. The choir was completed in 1214 and the nave was completed in 1225-50 but the west facade was continued construction untill 1270's.
In 1505 the north tower fell down and rebuilt in 1542.
 

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges,
begun  mid 1190s
 

 

 

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges,
begun  mid 1190s

 

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges,
begun  mid 1190s

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges,
begun  mid 1190s

 

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges,
begun  mid 1190s

 

Cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Bourges,
begun  mid 1190s