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Paper Abstract: The three churches discussed in this paper are: St. Sebald Church, in Nuremburg, Germany; the Florence Cathedral, and the Cathedral of Milan. Discusses how each balance the physical forces required to build looming buildings of stone and glass with the desire of architects, builders, and patrons to create works that simultaneously demonstrate their own piety and impeccable taste. Paper Introduction: Every Christian church that has ever been built and this is arguablytrue of the places of worship of every faith is an amalgam of thepragmatic and the idealistic of earthly concerns and divine ones Eachchurch lies in the borderlands defined on one side by the gravity-boundweight of stone and on the other by the desire of humans to reach into theheavens into the realm of sky and cloud where so many societies havebelieved that their gods live The three churches that will Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. The side aisles were widened in the early 14th century to reflectGothic taste and by the second half of the 14th century the church wastransformed into a building of mature Gothic style, with a triple-aisleGothic hall choir that replaced the Romanesque transept and east choir. Maria Novella. And the church would not befinished until the middle decades of the 14th century when the Sacristy aswell as the Campanile would be added by Jacopo Talenti. One. Sebald, the originalstructure was built relatively quickly, but it was renovated at relativelyshort intervals in the years immediately following its construction. The impetus tobuild Sta. notable contributions were made by the Germans. Takentogether, these three churches also allow us to understand the ways inwhich that combination of the divine and the quotidian changed over timefrom the Romanesque to the Gothic in all of its forms and then into thearchitectural gems of the Renaissance. With the diffusion of the French Gothic style throughout Europe ... Croix and R. The introduction of the arch brisee- that "broken arch" that is emblematic of the Gothic Church - allowedbuilders to create substantially taller buildings with far more glass inthem. Sebald Church, in Nuremburg, Germany; theFlorence Cathedral, and the Cathedral of Milan, each balance the physicalforces required to build looming buildings of stone and glass with thedesire of architects, builders, and patrons to create works that wouldsimultaneously demonstrate their own piety and impeccable taste. Eachchurch lies in the borderlands defined on one side by the gravity-boundweight of stone and on the other by the desire of humans to reach into theheavens, into the realm of sky and cloud where so many societies havebelieved that their gods live. Given the fact that the church was beingactively constructed over a span of five centuries, it is remarkable thatits essentially Gothic nature remained intact and is still visible to ustoday (http://www.discountmilano.com/tour/Secoli/Duomo/). In order to emphasize the importance of theirorder to the city, they chose as the site for Sta. The nave and choir of the Cathedral of Florence are much more firmlyanchored - and vaulted - in the Gothic. Even then thechurch was not completed, for the original Gothic façade was almostimmediately replaced by a more elaborate one that was built between 1456and 147 . People who could construct such buildings would also begin toconstruct ships to sail around the world - and would begin to move towardsthe age of the machine. Maria Novella came in 1246 from two Dominican friars -- Sisto daFirenze and Ristoro da Campi. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.http://www.arca.net/db/chiese/novella.htmhttp://www.bartleby.com/65/ge/Germanar.htmlhttp://www.discountmilano.com/tour/Secoli/Duomo/Skostad, Marilyn. The first phase of the church's construction - which included the naveas well as the aisles - was completed by 1279; however, the rest of thestructure would then take scores of years. In the Romanesque church and choir, the heavystonework of the arched barrel vault that was the traditional architecturalcore of the church) placed a substantial downward pressure. Maria Novella, andthe effect (when compared to St. Sebald's affords us the chance to examine the ways in which Gothicstyle manifested itself in Germany while also allowing us to understand howradically different in many ways Gothic style was from Romanesque style. Technicalbreakthroughs in masonry allowed the downward-pushing weight of the stonesto be more evenly distributed, producing a structure that on the insidelooked something like a citrus fruit with its internal wedges pulled apart.This is the basic construction of the interior of Sta. This shift in styles can not only be seen if we consider thesechurches in relationship to each other but also if we consider them inrelationship to themselves, for each of the churches includes elements fromdifferent moments in history. Art History, Vol. This combination of larger walls pierced by expanses of glass definedthe Gothic cathedral as a place of light and also, arguably, of ambition.The Gothic cathedral was certainly still a place of reverence, a place inwhich individuals would feel themselves humbled before God. Bothof these patterns - cathedrals built over a number of years and cathedralsthat were repeatedly modified - are common. In the case of the cathedral in Florence thiswas primarily the case because the building took well over a century toconstruct, and the years of its creation coincided with shifts inarchitectural taste. In the case of the Church of St. This lightness of architectural form combined with the technologicaldaring to construct a building that seemed so nearly impossible, marked theera of Gothic construction, a period that seems to us to be one repletewith piety and yet was also in its way the beginning of our secular modernage, an age defined by human ingenuity in stone and glass - and later insteel and silicon. The church was actually constructedon the site of an even older church, as was often the case and as isreflected by the name of the church, Sta. Tansey, eds.) Art through the ages, 8th ed. Sebald or other Romanesque churches) isboth a metaphorical and a literal lightness as if even the stone sectionsof the building were at least potentially transparent, as if they too mightglow with jeweled iridescence like the stained glass if only the lightwould strike them properly (Gardner 376). The three churches that will be discussed inthis paper are no exception: St. ... By the first decades of the 14th century, however,the Romanesque style of the church had apparently begun to look old-fashioned (and perhaps not properly inspiring) in a world that was quicklybeing converted to the more vertical and more fragile beauties of theGothic. St. Every Christian church that has ever been built - and this is arguablytrue of the places of worship of every faith - is an amalgam of thepragmatic and the idealistic, of earthly concerns and divine ones. (H. The original structure, which was afairly typical piered basilica, included two choirs as well as the nave andside aisles, an eastern transept and a western façade that rose to a pairof towers. Modifying the French emphasis on decoration, however, the Germans built simpler, unadorned piers and evolved a more unified, spacious form of church. The Romanesque choir in this church is a place toinspire far more humble dreams and belongs - both in technological and whatwe might call epistemological terms - to a world in which people's horizonswere far narrower. The elevated west choir (along with the nave) date from thisoriginal building phase. But it was alsoa place in which people would be impressed by the power of human ingenuityas well. Chapelle in Paris (perhaps the most striking use ofstained glass in any Gothic structure), the apse seems almost too whollyconstructed of glass to be structurally sound. Inmany ways these differences were a question of technological advances: Therounded arches of the Romanesque building (while arguably just as beautifulas anything that would come after them) were constructed as they were notsimply for aesthetic reasons but because they were the best method thatmasons of the Middle Ages knew to use. This style may be seen in the Church of St. Sebald (c.137 ), Nuremberg, or in the cathedral (c.147 ) at Munich (http://www.bartleby.com/65/ge/Germanar.html).Thus St. New York: Prentice Hall and Harry Abrams, 1995. While theoriginal designer was probably of Northern European origin (since thecathedral has the overall shape more of a German church than an Italianone), the apse as well as other sections of the church have taken on adistinctly Italian Gothic cast in terms of the degree - and the emphasis on- decorative elements and color. But the have and the choir of the church reflect an earlierarchitectural moment. Sebald began its existence during the late Romanesque period, inthe first decades of the 13th century. Works CitedGardner, L. The most striking element of the apse arethe vast expanses of glass in it: While not as dominated by glass as astructure like Ste. And yet, clearly, it isstructurally sound. Of all of these churches, the Cathedral of Milan had the most complexdesign and construction process. By this time, the Renaissance appreciation of the classical worldwas in full bloom and this façade is defined by its neoclassicism. Maria Novella the sitewhere a 1 th-century Dominican oratory had been built but had later beendestroyed (http://www.arca.net/db/chiese/novella.htm). If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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