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Sponsor |  SerialSinner | Feb 12, 2006 11:35pm | Some views of Notre Dame, one of my favorites...
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| | | MagusMan | Feb 13, 2006 6:08am | I don't generally like cathedrals, but one thing I definitely do like is the notre dame gargoyles:
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Sponsor | | SerialSinner | Feb 13, 2006 7:57am | I absolutely love gargoyles too.
Some say that gothic cathedrals were built that way to intimidate the believers and make them feel insignificant in front of the power of the church. There is a lot of macabre intentionality behind their construction after all. I bet they could suit the taste of many followers of the left hand path after some "motif modifications"... |
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| | | wiccagirl3 | Feb 14, 2006 11:58am |  |
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|  |  445980 | Feb 14, 2006 6:04pm | 
Gothic
Sta. Croce, Florence 1295
Is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, although it has wooden ceiling instead of groined vaults in the choir...
Why, then, do we speak of Sta. Croce as Gothic? Surely the use of the pointed arch is not sufficient to justify the term. A glance at the interior will dispel our misgivings, for we sense immediately that this space creates an effect fundamentally different from that of either Early Christians or Romanesque architecture. The nave walls have the weightless, "transparency" quality seen in northern Gothic church, and the dramatic massing of windows at the eastern end convey the dominant role of light as forcefully as Abbot Suger's choir at St. Denis. Judged in term of its emotional impact, Sta. Croce is Gothic beyond doubt. It is also profoundly Franciscan--and Florentine--in the monumental simplicity of the means by which this impact has been achieved.
Chartres Cathedral, France
Detail: Triforium wall of nave, Chartres Cathedral
Chartres' most important possession: remnants of the robe said to have been worn by the Virgin Mary, to whom the cathedral is dedicated. Furthermore the venerable relic, which miraculously survived the great fire of 1194.
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Sponsor | | SerialSinner | Feb 15, 2006 8:10pm | Very nice. Check this out.
Durham Cathedral, UK (Norman Gothic Period)
This is a cathedral in Prague
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