Pueblo Bonito (year)
-c. 900-1150 AD
Tikal (year)
-settled: c. 600 BC
-peak: 550-750 AD
Tikal
-Maya city state
-conquered by Teotihuacan
-came to power when neighboring city declined
Teotihuacan
-most culturally influential civilization of Mesoamerica
-two great axes
-plazas
-ceremonial platforms
-stepped pyramids
-practiced human sacrifice
Teotihuacan (year)
200 BC - 750 AD
Teotihuacan (location)
Valley of Mexico
Tikal (location)
Guatemala
Pueblo Bonito
-largest of the 9 great houses in Chaco Canyon
-800 plus rooms
Pueblo Bonito (location)
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Chaco Canyon
-intricate irrigation system
-extensive road system
-famous for masonry work
Mesa Verde
-cliff palace
-most famous cliff dwelling
-built by Anasazi
Mesa Verde (location)
-Colorado
Pyramid of the Sun
-tallest pyramid in Teotihucan
-buried children at corners of step level
-oriented platform towards summer solstice
Mesa Verde (year)
-600-1300
Pyramid of the Moon
-enlarged 6 times
-new buildings layered around old ones
-Teotihuacan
decline of Teotihuacan
-middle/lower class rebellion
-remained to be a model of architecture/urbanism
Viking Military Camp
-centralized plan
-very unlike organic Viking architecture
-longhouses emulated boe-shape of ships
Viking Military Camp (year)
981
Viking Military Camp (location)
Trelleborg, Denmark
Viking Military Camp (patron)
-Harold Bluetooth
Palatine Chapel
-still survives (1 of 15 buildings)
-imitates Justinian's church of San Vitale, Ravenna
-built for Holy Mother & child
-contains atrium (Roman tradition)
Palatine Chapel (year)
792-804
Palatine Chapel (location)
-Aachen, Germany
Palatine Chapel (architect)
Odo of Metz
Palatine Chapel (patron)
-Charlemagne
Plan of St. Gall
-outline of the rules of St. Benedict
-plan for the ideal monastery
-only architectural document that survives after fall of Roman Empire
-product of Carolingian Bureaucracy
-plan broken into zones for different activities/functions
-intended to serve as
Plan of St. Gall (year)
c. 830
Plan of St. Gall (location)
Switzerland
Skellig Michael
-hermetic monastery
-irish
Skellig Michael (year)
6th-11th centuries
Skellig Michael (location)
-County Kerry, Ireland
-island
Speyer Cathedral
-first vaulted nave since fall of Roman Empire
-originally built as a monastery church
-not built to Roman proportions (too stretched out)
-had crypt (burial place of patron and family)
Speyer Cathedral (year)
1027-1060
Speyer Cathedral (location)
Germany
Speyer Cathedral (patron)
Emperor Conrad
Cathedral Complex of Pisa
-Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles)
Cathedral Complex of Pisa (location)
Pisa, Italy
Pisa Baptistery (architect)
Diotisalvi
Pisa Baptistery
-dedicated to John the Baptist (statue on top)
-largest baptistery in Italy (circumference = 107 m)
-centimeters taller than campanile
Cathedral Complex of Pisa (year)
1063-1350
campanile (Cathedral Complex of Pisa)
-Leaning Tower of Pisa
-bell tower
-behind cathedral
-leans approximately 4 degrees off vertical
Ste. Foy
-Abbey Church of Saint Foy
-pilgrimage church (along the Way of St. James)
-resting place of St. Foy
-smallest pilgrimage church
-tympanum depicts last judgement
Ste. Foy (location)
-Conques, France
Ste. Foy (year)
1050-1130
Durham Cathedral
-eNORMous church
-incorporated essential elements of up-and-coming Gothic Style (pointed arch, flying buttress, rib vault)
-built in homage to St. Cuthbert
-features that become characteristic of Gothic architecture
-vaulting strategies by Norman builders
Durham Cathedral (year)
1093-1133
Durham Cathedral (location)
Durham, England
San Gimignano (location)
Italy
San Gimignano (begun)
begun in 10th century
San Gimignano
-house towers
-skyline that many towns in Italy once looked like
-13 house towers remain
the Campo (location)
Siena, Italy
Piazza del Campo (year)
c. 1300
the Campo
-dominated by Palazzo Publico (town hall)
-fan-shaped public square
-name from Campo = field
-left over space from joining 3 cities
-all buildings must compliment aesthetics of city hall
-9 wedges of different color pavement (3 for each of 3 cities)
-1 po
Monpazier
-typical "bastide
Medieval Urbanism
-nucleated towns
-linear organic
-maintained outline of amphitheaters (Florence)
San Gimignano house towers (year)
-12th to early 14th centuries AD
San Gimignano house towers
individual house towers that provided protection from enemies both within and out of the city
Monpazier (year)
1284
Monpazier (location)
France
Monpazier (patron)
English King Edward I
Siena (location)
Tuscany, Italy
Siena
-develops from 3 cities
-organically developed
-home of the Campo
-very well preserved due to massacre/economical depression
Chartres Cathedral labyrinth
-painted on floor
-symbolizes Christian equivalent of "path of enlightenment
Abbey Church of St. Denis (year)
1135-1144
St. Chapelle (year)
1242-1248
St. Chapelle (patron)
-King Louis IX
-declared saint of Catholic Church after death (St. Louis Missouri)
-mother was Queen Blanche
Abbey Church of St. Denis (Location)
Saint-Denis, France
Abbey Church of St. Denis
-abbey church
-first Gothic church
-large apse (known as "choir")
-buttresses
-clerestory
-emphasis on skeleton effect of structure (e.g. small columns; openness; bigger/more plentiful windows)
-many wanted to be buried here
-some original stained glass i
Abbey Church of St. Denis (Patron)
Abbot Suger (Soo-jay)
-wrote booklet to justify building such a fancy building
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres (Location)
Chartres, France
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres (year)
-1194-1230 (originally 1163)
Cathedral of Notre Dame - CHARTRES (Gothic)
-pronounced "shart"
-beginning of "High Gothic"
-rebuilding of Romanesque Notre-Dame
-rebuilt very quickly (great sense of uniformity)
-never finished
-made of hard limestone
-citizens volunteered to rebuilt it after fire
-regarded as greatest Gothic cath
Caenarvon Castle
Wales, Great Britain. Architect: Master James. Patron: King Edward I. 1283
Pueblo Bonito (year)
-c. 900-1150 AD
Tikal (year)
-settled: c. 600 BC
-peak: 550-750 AD
Tikal
-Maya city state
-conquered by Teotihuacan
-came to power when neighboring city declined
Teotihuacan
-most culturally influential civilization of Mesoamerica
-two great axes
-plazas
-ceremonial platforms
-stepped pyramids
-practiced human sacrifice
Teotihuacan (year)
200 BC - 750 AD
Teotihuacan (location)
Valley of Mexico
Tikal (location)
Guatemala
Pueblo Bonito
-largest of the 9 great houses in Chaco Canyon
-800 plus rooms
Pueblo Bonito (location)
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Chaco Canyon
-intricate irrigation system
-extensive road system
-famous for masonry work
Mesa Verde
-cliff palace
-most famous cliff dwelling
-built by Anasazi
Mesa Verde (location)
-Colorado
Pyramid of the Sun
-tallest pyramid in Teotihucan
-buried children at corners of step level
-oriented platform towards summer solstice
Mesa Verde (year)
-600-1300
Pyramid of the Moon
-enlarged 6 times
-new buildings layered around old ones
-Teotihuacan
decline of Teotihuacan
-middle/lower class rebellion
-remained to be a model of architecture/urbanism
Viking Military Camp
-centralized plan
-very unlike organic Viking architecture
-longhouses emulated boe-shape of ships
Viking Military Camp (year)
981
Viking Military Camp (location)
Trelleborg, Denmark
Viking Military Camp (patron)
-Harold Bluetooth
Palatine Chapel
-still survives (1 of 15 buildings)
-imitates Justinian's church of San Vitale, Ravenna
-built for Holy Mother & child
-contains atrium (Roman tradition)
Palatine Chapel (year)
792-804
Palatine Chapel (location)
-Aachen, Germany
Palatine Chapel (architect)
Odo of Metz
Palatine Chapel (patron)
-Charlemagne
Plan of St. Gall
-outline of the rules of St. Benedict
-plan for the ideal monastery
-only architectural document that survives after fall of Roman Empire
-product of Carolingian Bureaucracy
-plan broken into zones for different activities/functions
-intended to serve as
Plan of St. Gall (year)
c. 830
Plan of St. Gall (location)
Switzerland
Skellig Michael
-hermetic monastery
-irish
Skellig Michael (year)
6th-11th centuries
Skellig Michael (location)
-County Kerry, Ireland
-island
Speyer Cathedral
-first vaulted nave since fall of Roman Empire
-originally built as a monastery church
-not built to Roman proportions (too stretched out)
-had crypt (burial place of patron and family)
Speyer Cathedral (year)
1027-1060
Speyer Cathedral (location)
Germany
Speyer Cathedral (patron)
Emperor Conrad
Cathedral Complex of Pisa
-Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles)
Cathedral Complex of Pisa (location)
Pisa, Italy
Pisa Baptistery (architect)
Diotisalvi
Pisa Baptistery
-dedicated to John the Baptist (statue on top)
-largest baptistery in Italy (circumference = 107 m)
-centimeters taller than campanile
Cathedral Complex of Pisa (year)
1063-1350
campanile (Cathedral Complex of Pisa)
-Leaning Tower of Pisa
-bell tower
-behind cathedral
-leans approximately 4 degrees off vertical
Ste. Foy
-Abbey Church of Saint Foy
-pilgrimage church (along the Way of St. James)
-resting place of St. Foy
-smallest pilgrimage church
-tympanum depicts last judgement
Ste. Foy (location)
-Conques, France
Ste. Foy (year)
1050-1130
Durham Cathedral
-eNORMous church
-incorporated essential elements of up-and-coming Gothic Style (pointed arch, flying buttress, rib vault)
-built in homage to St. Cuthbert
-features that become characteristic of Gothic architecture
-vaulting strategies by Norman builders
Durham Cathedral (year)
1093-1133
Durham Cathedral (location)
Durham, England
San Gimignano (location)
Italy
San Gimignano (begun)
begun in 10th century
San Gimignano
-house towers
-skyline that many towns in Italy once looked like
-13 house towers remain
the Campo (location)
Siena, Italy
Piazza del Campo (year)
c. 1300
the Campo
-dominated by Palazzo Publico (town hall)
-fan-shaped public square
-name from Campo = field
-left over space from joining 3 cities
-all buildings must compliment aesthetics of city hall
-9 wedges of different color pavement (3 for each of 3 cities)
-1 po
Monpazier
-typical "bastide
Medieval Urbanism
-nucleated towns
-linear organic
-maintained outline of amphitheaters (Florence)
San Gimignano house towers (year)
-12th to early 14th centuries AD
San Gimignano house towers
individual house towers that provided protection from enemies both within and out of the city
Monpazier (year)
1284
Monpazier (location)
France
Monpazier (patron)
English King Edward I
Siena (location)
Tuscany, Italy
Siena
-develops from 3 cities
-organically developed
-home of the Campo
-very well preserved due to massacre/economical depression
Chartres Cathedral labyrinth
-painted on floor
-symbolizes Christian equivalent of "path of enlightenment
Abbey Church of St. Denis (year)
1135-1144
St. Chapelle (year)
1242-1248
St. Chapelle (patron)
-King Louis IX
-declared saint of Catholic Church after death (St. Louis Missouri)
-mother was Queen Blanche
Abbey Church of St. Denis (Location)
Saint-Denis, France
Abbey Church of St. Denis
-abbey church
-first Gothic church
-large apse (known as "choir")
-buttresses
-clerestory
-emphasis on skeleton effect of structure (e.g. small columns; openness; bigger/more plentiful windows)
-many wanted to be buried here
-some original stained glass i
Abbey Church of St. Denis (Patron)
Abbot Suger (Soo-jay)
-wrote booklet to justify building such a fancy building
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres (Location)
Chartres, France
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres (year)
-1194-1230 (originally 1163)
Cathedral of Notre Dame - CHARTRES (Gothic)
-pronounced "shart"
-beginning of "High Gothic"
-rebuilding of Romanesque Notre-Dame
-rebuilt very quickly (great sense of uniformity)
-never finished
-made of hard limestone
-citizens volunteered to rebuilt it after fire
-regarded as greatest Gothic cath
Caenarvon Castle
Wales, Great Britain. Architect: Master James. Patron: King Edward I. 1283