Gothic Art
Chapter 16
Art History 2nd Edition -Marilyn Stokstad
ObjectivesTowns become cities. An urban culture begins to take shape.
New universities are founded. Commerce and trade increase. Guilds are formed.
The profiles of some of Europe's modern nation states begin to be discernable.
Rifts between spiritual and secular authority appear. The Gothic is a period of
enormous change. Amongst this turmoil, some of the grandest expressions of the
human spirit take shape in buildings, statues, metalwork, and textiles. Your
primary objective for this chapter is to see and enjoy the art presented and to
understand the insight it gives to the European psyche; a psyche that was formulating other achievements.
Goals for this chapter include:
New universities are founded. Commerce and trade increase. Guilds are formed.
The profiles of some of Europe's modern nation states begin to be discernable.
Rifts between spiritual and secular authority appear. The Gothic is a period of
enormous change. Amongst this turmoil, some of the grandest expressions of the
human spirit take shape in buildings, statues, metalwork, and textiles. Your
primary objective for this chapter is to see and enjoy the art presented and to
understand the insight it gives to the European psyche; a psyche that was formulating other achievements.
Goals for this chapter include:
- Continue to monitor the map as some of today's great European cities emerge into political, economic, and artistic dominance.
- Grasp the regional flavors of the Gothic style, especially in architecture and painting.
- Take note of the fact that a great many more names of individuals--artists and patrons--are known to us in the Gothic than in the previous periods.
- Learn the basic structural underpinnings of Gothic architectural engineering.
- Understand how engineering is made to yield new ways of shaping space and surfaces.
- Watch for signs of the separation of design and structure--the emergence of the idea of design as a separate category of endeavor.
- Note the effects of catastrophic events such as the Black Death and the resilience of Europe in continuing to develop even during troublesome times.
- Be aware of the increasing interest of artists in the monuments of antiquity.
- Monitor the growth of private patronage of the arts.
Theme“The Quest for Height and Light.”
•focus on the new light (lux nova) desired by Abbot Suger for St. Denis • the competitive rush to the skies that will be manifest in the cathedrals built during the Gothic period. “Observe the Bean Sprout!” •Giotto will once again show an interest in the natural world. •The “sprout” though small and young, seems determined to break through crusty soil to reach for the sun (fame). •three nurturing roots present in the Trecento (the 14th cent. as a period in Italian art and literature): –new economic strength –the philosophy of humanisma new emphasis on personal experience |
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