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Mt. St. MICHEL


Date: 11th Century

Place: France

Period: French Romanesque

Significance: Church dominates island. Cloister for transition/meditation. 

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St. Philibert

 

Date: 11th and 12th Centuries

Place: Tournus

Period: French Romanesque

Significance: Attached buttresses. Minimum decorations outside. Not symetrical on the outside. Brick interior.

 

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St. MADELEINE

Date: 12th Century

Period: French Romanesque

Place: Vezelay

Significance: Unusual fassat shows individualism. Single bell tower. Unusual central arch over splayed effect that drags you inside. Tympanum with trumeau.

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ST. SERNIN

Date: 11th and 12th centuries

Place: Toulousse

Period: French Romanesque

Significance: Model for Romanesch Church; cross-shape, symetrycal, axiel, modular rect. bay, Ambulatory going around entire church, cross barrel Vaults, wheel window, blind arcade, simple interior.

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ABBEY CHURCH ST. SAVIN-SUR-GARTEMPE

 

Date: 11th and 12th Century

Place: France

Period: French Romanesque

Significance: Apse with Apsedials. Arcade up to roof. Untapered Bizentine columns. Ceiling vaults painted.

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DURHAM CATHEDRAL

 

Date: 11th and 12th Century

Place: England

Period: Norman Romanesque

Significance: No ambulatory. 3 apse. Romanesque towers. Chevron and Diaper pattern columns. Ribbed groined vaulting. Pointed Arches.

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CHURCH OF ST. ETIENNE, CAEN, FRANCE             

Date: 11th century

Place: Caen, France

Period: Norman Romanesque

Significance:  Most Famous Norman Romanesque Church; divided in 3x3x3. Plain Fassat and disproportioned roof over naive.

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SAN MINIATO AL MONTE

 

Date: 11th and 12th Century

Place: Florence

Period: Italian Romanesque

Significance: Marble with decorated inlay. Wood roof trusses. Cript w/ naive and choir.

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BAPTISTERY OF SAN GIOVANNI

 

Date: 11th and 12th Centuries

Place: Florence

Period: Italian Romanesque

Significance: Octagonal(Tuskan Romanesque Style). Geometric shapes. Several Marble colors. Broken into small pieces.

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CATHEDRAL COMPLEX PISA

 

Date: 11th and 12th Centuries

Place: Italy

Period: Italian Romanesque

Significance: Round Baptistry, wooden roof Basilica, attached Tuscan Romanesque columns, 1st wall painting, niple roof on dome, freestanding Campanile(leaning bell tower) is very decorated, Pulpit on apse.

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TITLE: CHURCH OF ST. AMBROGIO, MILAN

 

CULTURE: ITALIAN ROMANESQUE ARHITECTURE

 

 

PERIOD/REGION: MILAN

 

DATE: 11TH & 12TH CENTURIES

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Early Christian Revival. Unusual atrium. No transept. Boss in center of Ribbed Vaulting.

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TITLE: MONREALE CATHEDRAL, SICILY

 

PERIOD: ITALIAN ROMANESQUE ARHITECTURE

 

 

CULTURE/REGION: ROMANESQUE / SICILY

 

DATE: 12TH CENTURY

 


SIGNIFICANCE: Exterior deco is Islamic. Has tomb of William the Conqueror. Entirely gold interior. 

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TITLE: CEFALU CATHEDRAL

 

PERIOD: ITALIAN ROMANESQUE ARHITECTURE

 

 

CULTURE/REGION: ROMANESQUE / SICILY

 

DATE: 12TH AND 13TH CENTURY 

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Norman Twin Tower Fassat. Bizentince mosaics. Massive roof. Synthesis of Northern Romanesque, bizentine and Islamic. Blind arcade for decoration.

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TITLE: GREAT MOSQUE MASJID-I-JAMI

 

CULTURE: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

 

PERIOD/REGION: ISFANHAN, IRAN

 

DATE: 11TH CENTURY 

 

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TITLE: GREAT MOSQUE, CORDOBA, SPAIN

 

CULTURE: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

 

PERIOD/REGION: CORDOBA, SPAIN

 

DATE: 8TH CENTURY

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Hypostyler. Expanded in 2 different directions. Best example of Islamic Art. Two tiered Arches. Wooden Roof replaced by Vaults. Dome over Mihrab w/ geometric shape. Paint resembles Rosette.

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TITLE: LION COURT, ALHAMBRA

 

CULTURE: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

 

PERIOD/REGION: GRANADA,SPAIN

 

DATE: 13TH & 14TH CENTURY

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Not Axial or symetrical. Made to fit mountain site. Hadeequa (star shaped vaults). Water from lion's mouth airated area. Highly deco interior.

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TITLE: DOME OF THE ROCK

 

PERIOD: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

 

 

 

CULTURE/REGION: ISLAMIC/JERUSALEM,, ISRAEL

 

DATE: 7TH CENTURY 


 SIGNIFICANCE: Similar to Bizantine Churches (St. Vitale). Light/wooden verticle dome on drum. Pierced bizentine windows. Ambulatory. Alternating of colors.

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TITLE: PALACE OF MSHATTA

 

PERIOD: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

 

 

 

CULTURE/REGION: ISLAMIC/JORDAN

 

DATE: 8TH CENTURY

 

 SIGNIFICANCE: Rossettes w/ birds in zigzag pattern. Roman influence. Horrorvacui (everything FILLED IN).

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TITLE: GREAT MOSQUE, DAMASCUS

 

PERIOD: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

 

CULTURE/REGION: ISLAMIC/SYRIA

 

DATE: 8TH CENTURY

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Highly decorated. Built for large amounts of ppl. Roman influenced Mosaics. Hadeequa with pond to clean feet and hands. Roman Arches. Minaret, Dome, Corrinthian Columns. Assembly hall for prayer and Madrazza for political learning. 

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Title: AMIENS CATHERDRAL

 

CULTURE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

 

PERIOD/REGION: FRANCE

 

DATE: 13TH CENTURY

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Exagerated pointed Roofs. Unmatching Tower Roofs. Gargoiles. Cross best visible from roof, not plan. Tall Lancet windows(knifes).

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TITLE: LAON CATHEDRAL

 

CULTURE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

 

PERIOD/REGION: FRANCE

 

DATE: 12TH & 13TH CENTURY

 

SIGNIFICANCE: Rose window, dedication to Mary. Light symbolizes holly divine. English Plan because of Flat End(no chevet).

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TITLE: ST. DENIS

 

CULTURE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

 

PERIOD/REGION: FRANCE

 

DATE: 12TH CENTURY

 

SIGNIFICANE: Mosaics change to large Stained Glass and Pointed Arches. Flying buttresses, smaller, bigger clerestory. Final resting place of kings/queens of France. Rose Wheel Window. Offset narthax. Suger invented CHEVET= Apse+Apsedial+ambulatory. Six Part Ribbed Groin Vaulting.

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TITLE: CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME, CHARTRES

CULTURE / REGION: CHARTRES, FRANCE

PERIOD: 12TH & 13TH CENTURIES

STYLE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

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TITLE: CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME, PARIS

CULTURE / REGION: PARIS, FRANCE

PERIOD: 12TH & 13TH CENTURIES

STYLE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

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TITLE: ST. MACLOU

CULTURE / REGION: ROUEN, FRANCE

PERIOD: 16TH CENTURY

STYLE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

SIGNIFICANCE: Covered w/ elegant scrolls. Massive tower. Architectural Elements overlap each other making other Paculiar Elements.


 

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TITLE: UPPER CHAPEL, ST. CHAPPELLE, PARIS

 CULTURE / REGION: PARIS, FRANCE

PERIOD: 13TH CENTURIES

STYLE: FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

SIGNIFICANCE: 3/4 stained glass.


 

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Title: Exeter cathedral


Date:13th century


Place: Exeter, England


Period: English Gothic architecture

 

Significance: Tierceron Vaults create fan like character. 3 discrete Entrances. Elaborate tomb w/ polycroming.

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TITLE: SALISBURY CATHEDRAL 

CULTURE / REGION: SALISBURY, ENGLAND

PERIOD: 13TH & 14TH CENTURIES

STYLE: ENGLISH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

SIGNIFICANCE: Set in park. Flat end to Apse. No narthex, meaning no airlock. Lancet instead of rose window. A lot of HORIZONTALITY.


 

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TITLE: LINCOLN CATHEDRAL 

CULTURE / REGION: LINCON (LINCOLNSHIRE), ENGLAND

PERIOD: 12TH CENTURIES

STYLE: ENGLISH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

SIGNIFICANCE: Horizontal Lines. Crazy Vaults. Tierseron(ribs) with ridge Vaulting done solely for aesthetics. 


 

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Title: Wells cathedral

 

Date: 14th century


Place: Wells, England


Period: English Gothic Architecture

 

Significance: Strainer arch for support of Tower. 

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Title: Ely cathedreal

Date: 14th century
Place: Ely, England
Period: English Gothic Architecture

Significance: Octagon shaped Dome.

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Title: Milan cathedral
Date:14th 15th century
Place: Milan, Italy
Period: Italian Gothic Architecture

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Title: Siena cathedral

Date: 13th 14th century
Place: Siena, Italy
Period: Italian Gothic Architecture

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Title: Florence cathedral

Date:13th 14th century
Place:Florence, Italy
Period: Italian Gothic Architecture

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Title: Palazzo vecchio
Date: 14th century
Place:Florence,Italy

 Period: Italian Gothic Architecture

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