ARCH 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Canterbury Cathedral, Caernarfon Castle, Denis
18 Oct 2017
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Location: paris, france: st. dennis had his head chopped off and walked to site where church is today, 4 churches have stood where st. dennis is today, church is connected to france because of the french royal. Monastery and it is the burial place of royalty. Early gothic phase: (1837-1844: portals, towers, buttresses, crenellations, small rose windows and. How does the ambulatory reflect abbot suger"s desire to fill the church with light: skeletal gothic structure facilitated instillation of large windows, ambulatory filled with stained glass windows, pointed arch, ribbed vaults and buttresses. How was the upper part of the basilica at saint dennis changed in the 13th. Details of the fa ade: triple portal with pinnacles, lancet windows, central rose windows with lancet windows on either side, towers with open work turrets, oxen on the outside, tympanum with sculpted decoration above door on the bottom.
