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Title: Royal Portal, Chartres Cathedral
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Date: 12 century
Medium: architecture
Period: Gothic
Historical Significance: Tympana portray the life a majesty of Christ, while the jambs show kings, queens and personifications of medieval learning, which was seen as the way to faith
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Title: Saints Martin, Jerome, and Gregory, jamb statues, Porch of the Confessors, Chartres Cathedral
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Date: 13th century
Medium: architecture
Period: Gothic
Historical Significance: compare/contrast to Royal Portal figures from a century earlier, make connection between greek move from classical to archaic
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Title: God as Architect of the World
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Date: 13th century
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Period: Gothic
Historical Significance: shows God using the same architecture tools as the Gothic builders to create the world; nod to Paris as intellectual capital of Europe
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Title: Christ (Beau Dieu), trumeau statue, Amiens Cathedral
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Date: 13th century
Medium: trumeau statue
Period: Gothic
Historical Significance: Christ blessing all who enter, trampling a lion and dragon, which symbolize evil.
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Title: Visitation, jamb statues, Reims Cathedral
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Date: 13th century
Medium: statue
Period: Gothic
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Title: Virgin with the dead Christ, from the Rhineland
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Date: 14th century
Medium: painted wood
Period: Gothic
Historical Significance: the widespread trouble of the 14th century--disease, war, famine--brought a new consciousness of suffering, as evidenced in 14th century art like this. INterest in showing emotion |
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