Vocabulary

Flying Buttress
Pinnacle
Diagonal Rib
Transverse Rib
Vaulting Web
Clerestory
Triforium
Nave arcade
Stained Glass
Choir
Flying Buttress
Tracery

Practice Essay Questions
 
What did the Gothic Cathedral symbolize?  Provide specific examples in your analysis.

Identify and describe three features of the new choir at St-Denis as described by Abbot Suger that are characteristic of the new Gothic style?

What are the advantages of a pointed arch over a round arch?

Discuss the change in the role of women during the Gothic period and how it relates to the cult of the Virgin Mary?  What effect did these changes have on art?

Select an example of an Early Gothic cathedral and a High Gothic cathedral, and explain the factors that differentiate one from the other.

Compare and contrast the Romanesque cathedral with the Gothic cathedral using two fully-identified examples.