Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

1. GOTHIC

   • Pinture
     • Landscapes, cotidian objects, nobles' and burgoisie's portraits
     • , tempera and oil techniques.
   • Sculpture
     • Natural expression with feelings and realism. Religious and didactic mostly.  Altarpieces and funerary sculptures, stone and wood were popular.
   • Architecture
     • Narrow walls, more light, rose windows, spires, thick columns, pointed arches, ribbed vaults, archivolt, parteluz, triforium, apses/chapels, latin cross plan, flying and non flying buttresses, side entrance, bell towers

2. ROMANESQUE

   • Architecture
     • Thick walls, bad lit, narrow windows, buttresses, decorative columns, semicircular arches, low buildings, Barrell and Groin vaults, latin cross plan
   • Sculpture & Painting
     • Rigid expressions, educational purpose, solemnity and schematic styles