"GOTHIC," OR "BARBARIAN" IS A 16TH- CENTURY TERM OF
CONTEMPT, WHILE "POINTED ARCHHITECTURE" EVOKES
THE REVOLUTION IN BUILDING THAT FIT THE GROWING CITIES' SECULAR NEEDS.
IT BEGAN AT SAINT-DENIS.
-- This page adopts the ideas of Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko, 1957
When Crusaders described arches seen in Syria...
Procession in Jaffa by Gustave Bauenfried, 1890, zoom |
...attempts to adopt them immediately began. The aim was not to reach toward Heaven as layers did already...
...but to obtain the uninterrupted interior space necessary for the meetings, classes, conferences, etc., which towns springing up everywhere required and that much greater height allowed:
Conference at Notre-Dame by Henri Ladordaire, 1845, anonymous / zoom
Claude Abron
Internet, no photographer named
In The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, 1854 ed.
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Characteristics of Western culture: The Greek heritage, Roman law, the Judeo-Christian tradition...
And pointed-arch architecture,
which gives Saint-Denis its full importance.
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