MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTUREROMANESQUE STYLEMain characteristicsLatin cross designRound archesMassive stone wallsEnormous piers or pillarsGreat thick columnsSmall windowsGloomy interiorsSimple ornamentationInterior stone sculpture depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament
Most important examplesMonasteries ChurchesHouses of the Cluny ecclesiastical orderMaria Laach Abbey. 11th century. Western Germany
Saint Foy church, 12th century. France
Cistersian Abbey. 12th century. France
St. Etienne church. 11th century. Normandy, France
Iffley church. 12th century. Oxford, England.
Notre Dame de la Couldre. 12th century. Northern France
Interior of European monastery
European church. Massive pier
Great columns in the nave of Gloucester cathedral. England.12th century
Norman columns in the ambulatory of St Bartholomew's (1123), London
GOTHIC STYLEMain characteristicsLatin cross designPointed archRibbed vaultingFlying butressesRose windowsElaborated facadesMultiple columnsGargoylesStained glass (vitreaux)The Virgin Mary plays a prominent place in sculpture and satined glassRibbed Vaults
Flying butresses
Gargoyles
Rose window
Vitreaux
Vitreaux
Notre Dame, Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris
Chartres Cathedral
Laon Cathedral, France
Saint Chapelle. Paris
Nuestra Seora de la Merced. Salta
Iglesia San Alfonso. Salta