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| a monastery headed by an Abbot or a convent headed by an Abbess |
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| French churchman and later Regent of France; thought to be the first to combine various Romanesque elements in a single building thus establishing Gothic architecture. |
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| Ad quadratum (by the square)/ad triangulum (by the triangle) |
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| the two basic methods of geometric organization for the plans and elevations of Gothic cathedrals. |
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| the upward leading method. The idea was that material beauty would lead one to spiritual beauty: As the eye is attracted by the sparkle of a diamond, so the soul is by the idea of God. |
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| the rib-like moldings (usually carved with figures) lining the flanks (jambs) and arch of a Gothic or Romanesque portal. |
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| Ars sine scientia nihil est |
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| Popular Latin expression meaning: art without science is nothing, or, more informatively, Know how (skill) without know what (theory) is nothing. |
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| lead bars with an I-shaped cross section that hold the glass in a stained glass window. |
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| framework used to support a vault or vault rib |
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| is the French term for the string of chapels along the ambulatory around the east end of a cathedral. |
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| : the weight shift and slight twist of the body which occurs when a person places more weight on one foot than the other. Said of sculptures exhibiting this feature |
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| Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite |
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| was the titular saint of Abbot Suger's church of St. Denis to whom highly inspired writings on the spiritual qualities of light are traditionally attributed. |
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| The Early Gothic nave-wall elevation consisted of four parts: |
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| nave arcade, gallery, triforium, and clerestory. Later the gallery was eliminated. |
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| an arch (sometimes called a 'jack arch') which achieves arch action with little or no curvature due to just the wedge shape of its voussoirs. |
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| a water spout carved as a grotesque figure. |
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| metal bars running across leaded glass windows to give added support and wind bracing. |
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| the Norman two-tower west facade |
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| medieval mythical being with magical powers, associated with spring and the May festivals. A vestige of this being may exist in our big foot/sasquatch stories and in the idea that the inhabitants of Mars (?) are green. Honnecourt included drawings of leaf men in his Sketchbook (c. 1230) |
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| (1) An identifying mark adopted by a mason at the time he enters practice from his apprenticeship. (2) Marks made on stones to indicate their place in a vault or other construction. |
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| term for the Gothic in Gothic times |
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| Quadripartite vault/sexpartite vault |
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| the two basic vault configurations in Gothic cathedrals . Note the relation to ad triangulum and ad quadratum cathedral geometries. |
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(rayonnant = radiant or radiating) Dominated the second half of the 13th century. Associated with the royal Paris court of St. Louis. Bar tracery is the fundamental feature of the style. As found in the delicate rose windows.
Reverse perspective: a characteristic of some medieval paintings in which lines diverge toward the |
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| a characteristic of some medieval paintings in which lines diverge toward thethe horizon instead of converging toward a point or points |
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| a rib vault having six parts or panels |
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| Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, c 1225-1250. |
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| Exact purpose unknown. The only document of its kind to come down to us from the Middle Ages. |
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| (literally three portals), the triforium occupies the space corresponding to the exterior strip of wall covered by the sloping timber roof above the galleries of some early Gothic cathedrals. It gives rise to a nave elevation consisting of four parts: arcade, gallery, triforium, and clerestory. Eventually, the gallery is eliminated. |
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| the central column in a two-door church portal |
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| any membrane-like stone panel such as those typically found over the doors of a Gothic cathedral. |
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