ART HISTORY by Rocha Fabio

Author:Rocha, Fabio [Rocha, Fabio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

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Last Judgment in the tympanum of the Cathedral of Autun. In Romanesque sculpture, realism aimed at moralism. Distorted bodies in the masonry niche had expressions of intense emotion.

Gothic style

The splendor of the artistic development of the Middle Ages, in its plea with the wonders of Greece and Rome of Antiquity, was the Gothic cathedral. The so-called “stone Bibles” have surpassed even classical architecture in terms of boldness and technology.

The possibility of building Gothic cathedrals was due, in particular, to two developments in the engineering area. They are: the use of the vault with beams and external supports called flying buttresses or buttresses. And the applicability of these support points in the necessary places allowed the exchange of thick walls with narrow windows for narrow walls with large stained glass windows flooding the interior of the building with light.

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